Title Statements
- Full title :Beyond witnessing : a new way of humanising the world / Peter Chidi Okuma.
Summary
The Poor and poverty-related issues and questions are in vogue. Humanitarianism is in. Yet so many mouths are hungry and poor - even more hunger than never. What is responsible? Aren't there enough theories to end poverty like that of Jeffery Sachs: The End of Poverty. How we can make it happen in our Lifetime? Or those of Dambisa Moyo and others? Are resources not really enough and those directly concerned not doing enough in doling out help? Are we not donating enough? This author has x-rayed the theories of poverty and world poverty in particular through the purview of Jeffery Sachs. The au.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Peter Lang
- Place of Publication:Frankfurt am Main
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (90 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783653035292, 3653035295
- oclc:ocn961601429
- LC Classification:BX2347.8.P66
- Dewey Decimal:261.8/325
Table of Contents
Cover ; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter One; Introduction; 1.1 Stating the case; Chapter two; 2.1 A Way of Humanizing the World? Reviewing the popular theory of Jeffrey Sachs: a synopsis of his work: "the end of poverty -- how we can make it happen in our lifetime"; 2.1.1 General Reading cum Information in the Book:"The End of Poverty ."; 2.1.2 CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER REVIEW OF SACHS' BOOK; 2.1.3 Chapter Eighteen -- The General challenge of the book:'Our generation's challenge'; 2.1.4 Critical evaluation of the book; Chapter Three; 3.1 The Semantics of Witnessing.
3.2 The Paradox of Witnessing BeyondChapter Four; 4.1 Witnessing Beyond -- the Christian Metanarrative hermeneutics as a way of humanizing the world; 4.2 Christian background to witnessing beyond; 4.3 The historical backbone of witnessing beyond; Chapter Five; 5.1 Christ as the ideal; 5.2 "Lord Teach us how to pray" (Luke 11:1 -- 13):The example of the Apostles in Witnessing Beyond; 5.3 Prayer at the core of Witnessing Beyond; Chapter Six; 6.1 The Eucharist -- as the utmost prayervis-à-vis Witnessing Beyond; 6.2 The Logic of Meaning of the Eucharist as a paradigm for Witnessing Beyond.
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