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too fine for undergraduate readers who are new to agrarian debates. On the whole, however, the book is accessible and deserves to be widely read. The condition of rural populations in much of the global South is indeed dire-most of the 1 billion people living on less than a dollar a day live in the countryside. This book offers many important insights into why this is the case, and how the current regime of global capitalism works against a repetition of the agrarian transition that brought wealth and security to the global North.

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The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

The title of the study is ‘Spiritual
Leadership Capital: A Theology of Poverty in
 Congregational
Development’. It is a study which tried to understand how Ghanaian
Pentecostal spirituality informs their leadership paradigms towards
addressing poverty in their
 contexts.
 The basic assumption of
this study is, Pentecostal congregations can be a force to help
Ghana
 address poverty if they are missionally built-up and have
cultivated spiritual leadership capital
 (SLC).
 The research
problem is, do leadership in Ghanaian Pentecostal congregations
have spiritual
 leadership capital (SLC)? (Chapter three outlines
SLC). What has been the Pentecostal
 understanding of poverty, have
they a sustainable missional (practical) theology of poverty?
(Chapter 4 outlined this). To what extent could their having or the
lack of SLC, help or prevent
 them from developing missional
congregations which are able to theologically address the
 problem
of poverty? (Chapter two addressed missional theology). In what
ways might the
 adoption of SLC in congregational development by
Pentecostals contribute to the addressing of
 poverty in Ghana?
The study is in the broad disciplinary area of practical theology,
and specifically under the subdiscipline
 of congregational
development (ecclesiology). The Researcher advances ‘spiritual
leadership capital’ (SLC) theory, which he argues provides inner
virtues which spirituality
 affords people, shaping them with
resilient leadership paradigms that contribute to the formation
 of
social capital for the sustainable addressing of social problems
such as poverty. It comes to
 enrich earlier theories on social
capital.
 With the main concern of this project being missional
theology as regards leadership in
 congregational development
within the context of Ghanaian Pentecostalism, researcher contests
that, SLC can be used to address questions posed to the church and
the world by the problem of
 poverty. The word ‘missional’ has been
understood within the missional conversation to have a
 bigger
scope than missionary activity. Leadership’s understanding of
mission must determine the
 structures and systems of a missional
congregation. Using Osmer’s (2008) four task practical theology
approach to research, SLC comes as a
 practical theology of poverty
in congregational development. Using SLC in view of the backdrop
of Nel’s (2015:273-278) congregational analysis, contextual
analysis and diagnosis; the
 empirically the study looked at the
Church of Pentecost, Assemblies of God Church, Ghana, and
 Global
Evangelical Church. Its aim was to understand their concept of
being missional and how
 they see poverty within the scope of their
ecclesiology and how SLC can improve their praxis in
 this
direction. The researcher draws on historical lessons from the
spiritualities of historic
 pneumatic Christian movements, such as
Quakers, Moravians, Huguenots, and Puritans in
 overcoming poverty.
And as part of SLC, argues transformational diaconia, as a
missional
 response to poverty beyond existing social…

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Spiritual leadership capital : a theology of poverty in congregational development