This work fills a large vacuum in biblical research and exposition. On the one hand it makes a serious, critical, and constructive contribution to the search for an adequate biblical theology on the problem of poverty. On the other hand, coming as it does from an evangelical perspective, it strengthens and at the same time corrects many of the opinions articulated within the various political liberation theologies that have sprung up in Latin America during the last fifteen years. Thomas Hanks's excellent little book is biblically solid, theologically sound, and politico-socially perceptive. He keeps his distance from the liberation theologies that I would call ideological and presents a biblically founded path for action which is just as effective as any enthusiastic attachment to a particular movement, but which also retains the specificity of Revelation by bringing everything to Jesus, not only the Poor Man, but also the Savior and the Lord.