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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"option for the poor"”.
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Jon Sobrino and Pope Francis: A new springtime for the preferential option for the poor/vulnerable?
Since its first use in the 1960s, the term ‘option for the poor’ has never stopped stirring up debate. In its development, the social teaching of the Church adopted the expression and even enriched it with the term ‘preferential’ at the meeting in Puebla (1979). To examine the universal appeal of …
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A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor
A Model for Humane Economic Development: Hernando de Soto, Property Rights, and the Preferential Option for the Poor provides a constructive dialogue between the works of the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, and Catholic social teaching in …
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The Concept of the Poor in the Context of the Ecclesiology of Liberation Theology
<p>This investigation deals with the concept of the poor in the thought of Latin American Liberation theology, particularly as articulated in the context of the movement's ecclesiology.</p> <p>Chapter I traces the historical and theological context for the emergence of liberation theology. The …
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A contextual history of Christian institutional involvement in legal assistance to the victims of apartheid, 1960-1982
The perspective of this dissertation is one grounded in taking an option for the poor and the oppressed in the South African context. Ultimately, this perspective is a theological belief. The perspective is thus that of an explicit choice against apartheid and for social justice. This choice is …
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Introducing the Common Good Index and a Common Good Immigration Ethic
<p>The U.S. and Mexican bishops, in their influential pastoral letter Strangers No Longer, frame immigration ethics through the lens of solidarity with the immigrant. This frame leads them to erroneously interpret the preferential option for the poor and ignore potential harm to poor U.S. citizens …
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Theological material : food and clothing, the church, and the freedom of God.
This dissertation engages the Christian church's ambivalence about the theological value of material, its lingering inclination to turn from "matter" to "spirit" to find the real substance of God's concerns. Christians who seek this material elsewhere have little cause to find it in their own …
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The Church and development in the new South Africa : towards a theology of development
The Churches in South Africa played a vital role in the dismantling of apartheid. However, since the establishment of the new democratic government the Church seems to have retreated into denominational and ecclesiological interests. The Church claims that it was forced into the liberation struggle …
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Student Perceptions of Grit, Emotional-Social Intelligence, and the Acquisition of Non-Cognitive Skills in the Cristo Rey Corporate Work Study Program
<p>p>The Catholic Church has long emphasized an “option for the poor” and relied heavily on its schools to assist in providing the education necessary to help families escape poverty (Benson, Yeager, Guerra & Manno, 1986; Bryk, Lee, & Holland, 1993; Buetow, 1988; Convey, 1992; Greeley, 1982; Neal, …
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The Wal-Martization of African American Religion: T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed
… dissertation is an ideological critique of the New Black Church model of ministry, with T.D. Jakes and Woman Thou Art Loosed (WTAL) as a case study. T.D. Jakes is an African American televangelist who pastors The Potter’s House, a supermegachurch in Dallas, Texas. He is the quintessential …