Christianity Versus Fatalistic Religions in the War Against Poverty

Udo W. Middelmann provides an alternative to literature that regards poverty relief as a strictly material problem. By exposing the power of fatalistic religious ideas to suppress people and devastate cultures, Middelmann places biblical ideas at the heart of cultural development.

About the author

Udo Middelmann is the President of the Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation and currently the International Scholar at the Center for Global Engagement, Nyack College in New York. He is the author of Neither Necessary nor Inevitable: History Needn't Have Been Like That.

Product details

• Authors: Udo Middelmann, Udo W Middelmann, Udo W. Middelmann
• Publisher: Ivp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780830856268
• ISBN: 978-0-8308-5626-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 310 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Religion - World Religions