From wasteland to promised land : liberation theology for a post-Marxist world / Robert V. Andelson, James M. Dawsey. [print]

Foreword John D. Davies 1. Prologue. Hope for the Oppressed on Every Continent. Beneath All, the Land Problem. The Rise of Liberation Theology. Good Solutions That Miss the Mark. Freedom Seekers Inspired by the Bible. Church Views on Land Tenure. Chapter and Verse 2. Egyptian Bondage in the New World. Latin American Colonialism and Its Legacy. A System Justifying Suffering. How the Colonial System Worked. Rural and Urban Subjugation Persist. One Continent's Example of a World in Bondage 3. Perceptions of the Promised Land. Struggles for Liberation. The Promise of Land Reform. Failures of Land Reform. Envisioning the Promised Land. False Reports and Their Consequences. Who Owns the Promised Land? Landlordism versus Righteousness 4. Viewing Life from the Wasteland. The Righteous Society versus Baal Worship. Church and Government--Models from the Past. People-hood and Justice for All. Baalism's Real Evil 5. Poverty in the Wasteland. The "Preferential Option for the Poor" Revisited. Jesus' Good News for the Oppressed. Not All Poor Included, Not All Rich Excluded. Different Paths to Poverty. Romanticizing and Charity Fail to Liberate 6. Suffering in the Wasteland. Independence--But Still Wandering in the Wilderness. Economic Development and Dependency. The Center and the Periphery. A Stance against Free Trade. Cracks in Dependency Theory 7. Detours in the Wilderness. Marxism and Liberation. Alienation: The Worker as Subhuman Machine. Surplus Value: Pseudo-Scientific Rationale for Worker Revolt. Struggle to Fit "Class Struggle" Doctrine to Reality. Does Socialism Liberate? Papering over Dictatorship with Veneer of Humanism. Anticapitalism: Case of Mistaken Identity? A Feudal-Socialistic Stew. Basic Design Defects. Beyond Michael Novak 8. Traveling Down the King's Highway. How Those in Power Maintain the Status Quo. Clearing Away Roadblocks. Which Comes First--Capital or Labor? Does Increased Population Mean More Poverty? Seeking Poverty's Root Cause. Defining Terms in Pursuit of Essential Relationships. From Urban Blight to Rain Forest Destruction--Bitter Fruits of Land Speculation. Pushed to the Margin. Ethical Basis of Ownership. Who Made and Owns the Land? Finders Keepers? Do Old Wrongs Become Rights? ; 9. Claiming the Promised Land. Biblical Guideposts to Twentieth-Century Land Reform. Moses' Unique Laws to Assure Freedom and Equality. The Jubilee and a Sabbath for the Land. Sharing and Exclusive Private Use--Both at the Same Time. The Profit of the Earth. Land Rent Concept Disputed. Updating the Mosaic Model. Part of a Grand Design. Earmarks of a "Good Tax" A Constructive Answer to Dependency Theory. Foreshadowings of the Promised Land: Putting Antiexploitation Policies to Work. Commons without Tragedy. A Socialization Essential to Private Enterprise 10. Epilogue. The Promised Land and the Kingdom of God. Another Dimension: Inner Life. "The Earth Is the Lord's" Toward a Victimless Society Appendix. A Liberationist for All Seasons--Henry George: A Study in the Marriage of Theoria and Praxis. Formative Years--Schooled in Hardship. Budding Writer and Analyst. A Flash, a Book, a Platform. First Mayoral Campaign. Run-in with the Church: The McGlynn Affair. George's Religious Orientation. Confronting the Pope. Second Campaign--End of a Life.

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