Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Stephan Bauman, Wendy Wellman and Megan Laughlin as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding throughRead more…
Shaping the ‘Hidden’ Curriculum for Engaging Power, Poverty and Wealth in Africa: A Case Study from Scott Theological College, Kenya
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Jacob Kibor, Gregg A. Okesson and Kimberly Okesson as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively RespondingRead more…
Addressing Poverty with Participatory Learning
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Ravi Jayakaran as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Wealth, Poverty and Power: Effectively Responding through the Global and Local Church.”Read more…
Holistic Gospel Impact on Prosperity Gospel
One characteristic of different cultures is that they can understand terms differently. I certainly consider the above terms (prosperity and holistic gospel) as a case in point. In my limited time in sub-Saharan Africa, I have found that to talkRead more…
The Argument against Prosperity
But critics charge that the broad scope of the biblical witness precludes a prosperity interpretation. At least three sets of biblical arguments are marshaled against the prosperity message. First, Jesus himself advocated and embodied a lifestyle of simplicity, not prosperity.Read more…
The Argument for Prosperity
The first type of response I think we need to heed is the arguments for the prosperity gospel. In a short post, we can do no more than summarize the major threads. While any complete response and assessment will needRead more…
Social Justice
There has been a lot of talk of Social Justice in the last few years. For some, this is an old issue that is linked to ideas of Socialism. For others it is a clear responsibility of Christians to beRead more…