
Blessed are the Poor?
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Content
- Intro
- Blessed Are the Poor?
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Crucial Question
- 1 Blessed Are the Poor?
- Poverty in Galilee
- What exactly is poverty?
- Calculating poverty
- A distinctive shape
- A distinctive history
- Distinctive people
- Demonizing the poor
- The Church's response?
- Listening to those at the edge
- 2 Listening to the Poor
- Listening to the stories
- Hell or heaven?
- Who cares?
- The quest for security
- Few expectations?
- Where's home?
- Where's the work gone?
- Nothing much to live for?
- The sheer strain of it all
- It's all the fault of the poor
- No voice for the poor?
- 3 The Story Unfolds
- The early housing estates
- Estates and the rise of the welfare state
- Quantity or quality?
- 'All Change' and the 'Right to Buy': 1979
- New Deals and new structures
- The Cameron years
- So have the poor been blessed?
- Despite all the odds
- 4 Praying the Kingdom Prayer
- Our Father : God's intimate concern
- Our Father: belonging together
- Our Father in heaven: acknowledging the beauty
- Hallowed be your Name: what is worth honouring?
- Your Kingdom come: a new world order
- Your will be done, on earth as in heaven: living out the Kingdom
- Give us today our daily bread: enough to eat
- Kingdom values: a compass for Kingdom living
- 5 Kingdom Living
- Forgive us our trespasses: shameful burdens lifted
- As we forgive those who trespass against us: mutuality
- Lead us not into temptation: the time of trial
- Deliver us from evil: the structural nature of sin
- Yours is the Kingdom: being turned around
- The power is yours: acting serenely
- The glory is yours: looking up!
- For ever and ever : living in God's constancy
- 6 The Challenge of the Beatitudes
- What is it to be blessed?
- A momentous event
- Understanding their poverty
- God's radical reversal
- The Kingdom challenge
- Signs of the blessedness of the poor
- Blessed by God's clear presence
- Blessed by God's gifts
- Blessed by faithfulness
- The blessedness of vision
- The blessedness of vulnerability
- 7 Blessed with Insight
- The poor's blessings of biblical insight
- Exclusion and exile
- Nehemiah
- Understanding the importance of place
- Theological insights of the poor
- Christological insights
- T-shirts and thin places
- Power and the Church
- Mission to or mission for?
- 8 Incarnational Church?
- The Church forgets its Kingdom values
- Living in the kairos moment
- Deep listening
- Reasons for confidence
- The elephant in the room
- Travelling light
- Incarnational mission
- Working together
- Engaging politically
- Redirecting resources
- Mary's revolutionary challenge
- 9 The Vanguard of the Kingdom
- Claiming the inheritance
- The small church
- It's all about relationships
- The welcome stranger
- Total immersion
- Pavement-level theology
- A people of action
- Holistic mission
- Worship - foretaste of the Kingdom
- Conclusion: Blessed are You who are Poor
- Bibliography
- A selection of websites relating to our subject
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