Review article
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.60.1.2
The Church and privileged place of the poor among the people of God
Anđelko Domazet
orcid.org/0000-0002-1606-6640
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The first part of the paper clarifies the biblical and Christological dimension of the concept of poverty. Thus, the evangelical poverty is analysed in the context of Jesus ’ proclamation of the kingdom of God, and the practice of the first Church. The second part of the paper highlights the structural significance of ‘option for the poor’, in the mission of the Church, in the light of the Council ’s vision of the Church, and the Catholic social teaching. The basic form of Christian witnessing in this world can be expressed through the Church ’s solidarity with the poor, socially vulnerable, and with all those who are in any way disempowered in the age of globalization and neoliberal capitalism.
Keywords
evangelical poverty; Church ’s commitment to the poor; Catholic social teaching; theology of liberation; globalization.
Hrčak ID:
234892
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Publication date:
1.3.2020.
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