Research Catalog

Title

Rich church--poor church? : Some Biblical perspectives / Enzo Gatti ; translated by Matthew J. O'Connell.

Author

Gatti, Enzo.

Publication

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1974.

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Details

Additional Authors

O'Connell, Matthew J.

Description

xi, 127 pages; 19 cm

Uniform Title

Colui che sa il dolore dell'uomo. English

Alternative Title

Colui che sa il dolore dell'uomo.

Subject

• Mission of the church
• Missions
• Liberty > Religious aspects > Christianity

Note

• Translation of Colui che sa il dolore dell'uomo.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Let my people go -- Where authority and power become superfluous -- The risks of freedom -- The God of the Bible: a God of freedom -- The prophets cry out against oppression -- misconceiving the role of the liturgy -- God's bread to feed the hungry -- A salvation which is a new creation -- Let my people go! -- 2. He who knows the sorrows of men -- Christ, the eschatological event -- Christ's message is wholly and entirely missionary -- Christ, judgment upon the world -- Christ, judgment upon every religious society that calls itself by his name -- urgency of the mission? -- 3. Mission and secularization -- Need of the church despite the church -- Moved by the spirit -- Spirit and mission -- Mission and secularization -- 4. Christians in missionary communities -- Missionary communities -- The church ceases to be an abstraction : the local communities in the new testament -- Koinonia -- Diakonia -- Kerygma -- Personal vocation -- Conclusion -- The missionary church confesses -- Belief in its crucified Lord

ISBN

• 0883444372
• 9780883444375

LCCN

74077432

OCLC

• ocm01055687
• 1055687
• SCSB-804425

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library