Preaching Good News to the Poor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. King
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Good News ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Social Ethic ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
American Evangelicalism ◽  
Exact Relationship

The chapter examines how Billy Graham’s encounters with domestic and global poverty offer a window into the evolution of Graham’s social ethic that sheds light on American evangelicals’ public engagement at home and abroad. As his public platform grew, he began to draw attention to the world’s most pressing needs. Graham’s evolving humanitarianism helped set the boundaries of a postwar American evangelicalism. As Graham came to speak of both evangelism and social concern as necessary parts of the gospel, debates over their exact relationship continued to rally and fragment evangelicals. Graham’s social ethic also illuminated American evangelicals’ view of the world. Finally, Graham’s humanitarianism highlighted the contested relationships between government and religious agencies. As his social ethic moved from the abstract to the specific, Graham embraced terms like social justice and social responsibility. This shift may serve as Graham’s closest link to the global activism of contemporary evangelicalism.

scholarly journals KONSEP HAK MILIK DALAM EKONOMI ISLAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
AN Ras Try Astuti ◽  
Andi Faisal
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Joint Ownership ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Individual

Capitalism as an economic system that is implemented by most countries in the world today, in fact it gave birth to injustice and social inequalityare increasingly out of control. Social and economic inequalities are felt both between countries (developed and developing countries) as well as insociety itself (the rich minority and the poor majority). The condition is born from the practice of departing from faulty assumptions about the man. In capitalism the individual to own property released uncontrollably, causing a social imbalance. On the other hand, Islam never given a state model that guarantees fair distribution of ownership for all members of society, ie at the time of the Prophet Muhammad established the Islamic government in Medina. In Islam, the private ownership of property was also recognized but not absolute like capitalism. Islam also recognizes the forms of joint ownership for the benefit of society and acknowledges the ownership of the state that aims to create a balance and social justice.

A Study on the Economic Benefits of Globalization: Focusing on the Poverty and Inequality between the Rich and the Poor

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hyup Shin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Developed Countries

Globalization is now well recognized by many as an inescapable feature of the world today. In particular, in the middle of global economic crisis globalization is one of the hot issues drawing much attention from countries around the world. There are contradictory perspectives on globalization. There are many sweeping statements that assert that economic globalization is increasing global poverty and inequality between the rich and the poor in the world. There are also many others who insist that the poverty and inequality issues have been resolved in some sense through globalization. In order to find the answer to the question, firstly the meaning of globalization was fully explained. Based on the understanding of globalization, the questions such as how globalization has contributed to reduce the economic gap between the developed and the developing countries, and to reduce the poverty by analyzing the economic growth, the number of people living below the absolute poverty line and so on were analyzed. The reasons why globalization is a good opportunity for some countries while some other countries get not something from the globalization was also discussed in this research. We found that globalization has contributed to reduce global poverty and to increase the welfare of both the developed and developing countries. However globalization has impacted different groups differently. Some have benefited enormously, while others have borne more of the costs. The developed countries could get more economic benefits from the less developed countries through globalization. This means, inequality between the rich and the poor countries still remained as a serious threat in the global economy. And even among the developing countries globalization has impacted differently. The trends toward faster growth and poverty reduction are strongest in developing economies that have integrated with the global economy most rapidly, which supports the view that integration has been a positive force for improving the lives of people in developing countries There are two main reasons for the inequality existing between the developed and developing countries. The fist one is the difference of economic size and power between the developed countries and the developing countries started to exist from the late 18th century. The second one is the differences in the management skill in taking advantage of the globalization.

In Defense of Openness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas van der Vossen ◽  
Jason Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Open World ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Zero Sum

The humane and workable solution to global poverty is freedom. We can help the poor—and help ourselves at the same time—by tearing down our walls and trade barriers. Both justice and good economic sense require that we open borders, free up international trade, and respect the economic liberties of people around the world. What global justice requires is an open world. Most books on global justice see the world’s poor as little more than mouths to be fed. Their authors see justice as a zero-sum game: some must lose so that others may win. They rely on controversial moral intuitions and outdated or mistaken economic beliefs about economic growth. Van der Vossen and Brennan present global justice as a positive-sum game: the methods that can best help the world’s poor also help everyone else. Using mainstream development economics and common-sense moral intuitions, they argue that instead of treating the world’s poor as helpless victims who must be rescued by the rich, we should remove the coercive limits that keep people poor in the first place. We should offer people the freedom to work, produce, trade, and migrate, in ways that help better themselves and others who are willing to cooperate with them. In Defense of Openness offers a new approach to global justice: we don’t need to “save” the poor. The poor will save themselves, if only we would get out of their way and let them.

Global Poverty’s Harm

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-232
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World

What is the severest harm suffered by the global poor? Against theories saying that it is social exclusion, corrosive disadvantage, or humiliating personal failure, chapter 8 argues that the harm is that such poverty entangles the poor in a web of crises. The poor are caught up in a spider’s web of agonizing decisions and moral dilemmas, brought on by their poverty. Day in and day out, they face these crises. If they make good decisions, it is probable that their only reward is to continue in their deprived state. If they make poor decisions, then disaster will likely strike. And they know that the next day will bring more crises, and the next yet more. It is this, along with knowing that there are many others in the world who are not so entangled, because they are not poor, that is the severest harm of the injustice of global poverty. The chapter then shows how that injustice suppresses everyone’s potential resistance to it, and thus makes all unfree.

Can Benign Leverage Be Relied on to Make the World More Just?

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Tim Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Leverage Effect ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World

Some moral and political philosophers have argued that a duty of the affluent to relieve global poverty can be discharged by transferring an amount of money that is relatively small in global terms. This is to rely on an effect conceptualized in this chapter as benign leverage. The assumption that benign leverage can achieve global justice implies that current international institutional arrangements are imperfectly just, not fundamentally unjust. Somewhat paradoxically, however, the more successfully the leverage is used in order to benefit the poor, the more difficult it may become to achieve further success or even to consolidate gains already made. Given that the leverage effect depends on the existence of significant inequalities, one should consider carefully the conditions that must pertain for it to operate and how just they may in fact be.

A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Missionary Zeal ◽  
The World

This introductory chapter opens by exploring Gordon Brown’s upbringing as ‘a son of the Manse’ and his burning desire for social justice. This chapter reveals a clear lineage between the young socialist tramping the streets of Edinburgh and the man who would end up becoming Britain’s most powerful Chancellor of the Exchequer. Driven by his Christian faith, the influence of his parents, and a deep compassion for the most vulnerable in society, Brown took his mission to change the world very seriously indeed. As this book will go on to show, Brown’s steadfastness to end global poverty would see the former Chancellor and Prime Minster design a model of political economy that not only oriented Britain towards the ‘opportunities’ presented by globalisation, but one that could also be exported to meet the challenges faced by some of the poorest countries in the world.

scholarly journals Catalytic Social Entrepreneurship to Combat Desperate Poverty: A Systems Approach

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald A J Mascarenhas ◽  
Ram Kesavan ◽  
Michael D. Bernacchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Bottom Of The Pyramid ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Entrepreneurship

Any credible agenda that seeks to eradicate global poverty must seek to correct the structural injustices and inequities that cause and perpetuate desperate endemic poverty. Such an agenda must aim not merely to aid the poor with grants, welfare and subsidies, but it must primarily seek to enhance the capabilities, skills, access and opportunities of the marginalized to participate on more equitable terms, in the dynamic process of overall economic growth. We apply a systems approach to poverty, the latter itself being a pernicious system. Eradication of global desperate poverty and its unjust structural causes can be done through two concurrent systems-thinking based strategies: (a) micro catalytic social entrepreneurship that leads to catalytic innovations that alleviate poverty, and (b) macro social catalytic political entrepreneurship that radically innovates legislation or designs macro-policy intervention systems that can effectively dismantle existing unjust structures of social injustice and inequities – the causes that perpetuate endemic global poverty. Using the theories of catalytic innovations and the bottom of the pyramid, we focus on solution (a) as being feasible, viable and doable and in the long run having the potential for eradicating global desperate poverty. We also provide two case studies where solution (b) was effectively implemented. The main proposition of the paper is that the use of both micro- and macro- catalyst can help alleviate poverty in the world.   Keywords: Micro catalyst, macro catalyst, global poverty, system approach, catalytic innovation, macro-policy intervention.

scholarly journals Os pobres como boa notícia para a vida da Igreja: as cartas do Papa Francisco para o dia mundial dos pobres | The Poor as Good News to the Life of the Church: Pope Francis’ Letters for the World Day of the Poor

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Rogério L. Zanini
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Good News ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Good Deed ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

O Papa Francisco instituiu, em 2016, o Dia Mundial dos Pobres. Nos três anos seguintes, emitiu, em cada ano, uma carta-mensagem enfatizando a necessidade de a Igreja colocar os pobres, prediletos de Jesus Cristo, no centro de sua missão. Por um lado, o mundo dos pobres se apresenta com uma multiplicidade de expressões: rostos marcados pelo sofrimento, pelas injustiças sociais, pelos bolsões de pobreza próximos de mansões e sendo repelidos por muros e esquemas de alta segurança. Por outro lado, os pobres, sob o olhar da fé que brota do Deus revelado por Jesus Cristo, são para o cristianismo a presença do próprio Deus na história. Assim, os pobres não são apenas destinatários de uma boa ação, de alguns gestos improvisados de caridade, mas, ao contrário, na relação com os pobres se toca com as mãos a carne de Cristo. Este artigo reflete sobre essas questões a partir das cartas do Papa para o Dia Mundial dos Pobres, tendo como chave-interpretativa o conceito de pobreza fruto da Conferência de Medellín (1968), que se dá em uma perspectiva tríade: pobreza como carência, fruto de injustiças; a pobreza evangélica que precisa ser buscada como lembram os profetas e o próprio Jesus de Nazaré; e pobreza como realidade de solidariedade e missão intrínseca da vida da Igreja.   Abstract Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor in 2016. Since then, he wrote, each year, a letter-message emphasizing the need for the Church to place the poor, favorites of Jesus Christ, in the center of her mission. On the one hand, the world of the poor presents itself with a multiplicity of expressions: faces marked by suffering, social injustices, areas blighted by poverty living close to mansions and being repelled by walls and high security schemes. On the other hand, the poor, under the sight of faith, which springs from the God revealed by Jesus Christ, are the presence of God Himself in history. Thereby, the poor are not only recipients of a good deed, some improvised gestures of charity, but, on the contrary, in the relationship with the poor, we touch with our own hands the flesh of Christ. This article reflects on those questions, based on the papal letters for the World Day of the Poor, and taking as a hermeneutical key the concept of poverty established in the Medellín conference (1968) in a triad perspective: poverty as a lack and a fruit of injustice; the evangelical poverty that needs to be pursued as the prophets and Jesus of Nazareth remember; and poverty as a reality of solidarity and an intrinsic mission of the Church's life.

scholarly journals Teisme, Mesianisme Dan Aksiologisme: Akomodasi Kitab Suci Kristen Terhadap Problema Kemiskinan Dan Pemiskinan

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Deky Nofa Aliyanto
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Concern ◽  
Bible Studies ◽  
World Community ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Face

AbstractPoverty and impoverishment are social realities that have been struggling for most of the world community to this day. Christians who are part of society that form social fibers with the stereotype of "loving" should have social concern for the problems of poverty and impoverishment. The facts show that some Christians are indifferent in the face of such struggles. This study aims to show the fact that Christian scriptures actually accommodate poverty struggles. This research uses a qualitative approach methodology. Sources of data were obtained from Bible studies and literature consisting of books, internet, articles, and other written data related to this research.Specifically, this research will apply the Biblical Theology method including a hermeneutic approach to Bible study with the aim of understanding the meaning of the text which in this study is associated with the problems of poverty and impoverishment. This paper aims to show that the Christian scriptures basically accommodate the problems of poverty and impoverishment which are social facts that become an integral part of the life of Christian faith.  The research results show three accommodations of Christian Scriptures to the problems of poverty and impoverishment, among others: Theism in Christian scriptures that embraces the poor, Messianism in Christian scriptures that embraces the poor, and Axiologism in Christian scriptures.Abstrak: Kemiskinan dan pemiskinan merupakan realitas sosial yang menjadi pergumulan sebagian besar masyarakat dunia sampai hari ini. Orang Kristen yang merupakan bagian dari masyarakat yang membentuk serabut sosial dengan steriotipe “penuh kasih” seharusnya memiliki kepedulian sosial terhadap masalah kemiskinan dan pemiskinan. Fakta menunjukkan bahwa  sebagian dari orang Kristen acuh dalam menghadapi pergumulan demikian. Penelitian  ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan fakta bahwa kitab suci Kristen sesungguhnya mengakomodasi pergumulan kemiskinan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metodologi pendekatan kualitatif.   Sumber data didapatkan dari studi Alkitab dan literatur yang terdiri dari buku-buku, internet, artikel, serta data tertulis lain yang berkaitan dengan penelitian ini.  Secara spsesifik penelitian ini akan menerapkan metode Teologi Biblika mencakup pendekatan hermeneutik untuk pengkajian Alkitab dengan tujuan memahami makna teks   yang dalam penelitian ini dikaitkan dengan problema kemiskinan dan pemiskinan.  Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan bahwa kitab suci Kristen pada dasarnya mengakomodasi problema kemiskinan dan pemiskinan yang merupakan fakta sosial yang menjadi bagian integral dalam kehidupan iman umat Kristen. Hasil penelitian menunjukan tiga akomodasi Kitab Suci Kristen terhadap problema kemiskinan dan pemiskinan antara lain: Teisme dalam kitab suci Kristen yang merangkul kaum miskin, Mesianisme dalam kitab suci Kristen yang merangkul kaum miskin, dan Aksiologisme dalam kitab suci Kristen yang merangkul kaum miskin.

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