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  2. Christian views on poverty and wealth - Wikipedia

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    Perrotta describes the cultures as having radically different views of money and wealth. Whereas the Hebrew culture prized material wealth, the Classical and Christian cultures either held it in contempt or preached indifference to it. However, Perrotta points out that the motivation of the Classical and Christian cultures for their attitudes ...

  3. Category:Christian radicalism - Wikipedia

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    This is a catch-all category for Christians political radicalism, or Christian individuals and groups focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.

  4. The Gospel of Wealth - Wikipedia

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    The Gospel of Wealth asserts that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth. Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them. Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable ...

  5. Thomas J. J. Altizer - Wikipedia

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    The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1966). The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967; Aurora, CO: Davies Group, 2000). ISBN 1-888570-56-3; Toward A New Christianity: Readings in the Death of God, ed. Altizer (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World ...

  6. Religious right in the United States - Wikipedia

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    They have been used as labels, sometimes pejorative, referring to members of the Christian right, particularly those whose ideology represents a synthesis of elements of American conservatism, conservative Christianity, and social conservatism, expressed through political means.

  7. The Politics of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    After showing what he believed to be inconsistencies of Niebuhr's perspective, Yoder attempted to demonstrate by an exegesis of the Gospel of Luke and parts of Paul's Letter to the Romans that, in his view, a radical Christian pacifism was the most faithful approach for the disciple of Christ. Yoder argued that being Christian is a political ...

  8. Latin American liberation theology - Wikipedia

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    He criticized radical liberation theology, saying, "this idea of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth, does not tally with the Church's catechesis"; [18] however, he did acknowledge that "the growing wealth of a few parallels the growing poverty of the masses", [18] and he affirmed both the principle of ...

  9. Christian worldview - Wikipedia

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    Christian worldview (also called biblical worldview) refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs through which a Christian individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it. Various denominations of Christianity have differing worldviews on some issues based on biblical interpretation, but many thematic elements are ...