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The Christian right within evangelical Christianity has formed many of its political views on social issues such as abortion, homosexuality and public education from passages in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. [26] In the Epistle to the Romans, chapter 13:1-7, Paul instructs Roman Christians to submit to government.
Pax Christi protesting the U.S. invasion of Iraq (Washington, D.C., March 2008).. Pax Christi (Latin for Peace of Christ) was established in France in March 1945 by Marthe Dortel-Claudot and Bishop Pierre-Marie Théas, after the Germans had been expelled from France but before the end of World War II in Europe.
Much of Christianity has not kept a balance of the Bible’s teachings to include an emphasis on the injustice between rich and poor. Opinion: Social Gospel applies the Bible to social issues ...
Demilitarisation or demilitarization may mean the reduction of state armed forces; it is the opposite of militarisation in many respects. [1] For instance, the demilitarisation of Northern Ireland entailed the reduction of British security and military apparatuses. [ 2 ]
The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war.
Salvatore Talamo, a neo-Thomistic sociologist and Catholic social theorist, when distinguishing between the conservative and Christian democratic views on labour issues, used Christian Socialists for the latter; most Christian democrats avoid using socialism, which is occasionally mainly used by conservatives who attempt to discredit their ...
The modern concept of Christian humanitarian aid is based on teachings from the Bible. [1] Charity and providing assistance to the poor are concepts established in the Old Testament. [2] According to Exodus, part of one's tithe was devoted to the needy (orphans, widows, foreigners). In the New Testament, Jesus taught much about the subject of ...
Hence, examples of contextualized theologies include Latin American liberation theology, Minjung theology, and African theology. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The systematic theologian Regunta Yesurathnam sees contextual theology as including "all that is implied in indigenization or inculturation , but also seeks also to include the realities of contemporaneity ...