Topic 3- Wealth and Poverty: Rich man

Matthew 19?

Mark 10?

• Luke 18?

• Each account, what question does the man approach Jesus with?

• The man refers to Jesus as “good teacher?”

• How does Jesus react?

• Mark’s version, Jesus responds more s… compared to Matthew’s?

• How does Harrington (1984) describe the refusal of the man, who Jesus loved to follow him?

• Rich Young Man, Rich man, Rich Ruler

• “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Rare

• Jesus responds by questioning why the man calls him “good”- rejects superficial flattery.

• Sternly

• “saddest episode in the Gospel”.

• What metaphor/hyperbole does Jesus use?

• Jewish Talmud, what similar metaphor is used with an animal?

• What do some scholars propose Greek word “camel” was mistaken for in English?

• When Peter, who speaks on behalf of the disciples reminds Jesus that they have given up everything to follow him, how does Jesus respond?

• What Saint refused a fan while she was dying, making the argument that the poor don’t own fans?

• What type of poverty did she choose? V…, poverty, give an example of how she lived this vow out.

• When was she canonised a Saint and what year did she found the Missionaries of Charity?

• Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

• Elephant

• “cable”

• Jesus reassures them that anyone who has left behind family or livelihood for his sake will be rewarded “hundredfold” and will receive eternal life in the age to come.

• “many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

• St Mother Teresa

• Voluntary poverty, wore a simple white sari with blue border

• 2016,1950

• Give the secular example of a couple who offer philanthropic acts to support relevance of following the command to help the poor today?

• the growing movement of the P…G… is illustrated through evangelicals such as Joel Osteen from Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas and Kanye West “God is” album.

• These American megachurches who promote this are committing a heresy against the RCC, exploiting the vulnerable for financial gain, Biblical distortion.Christians teachings often emphasise spiritual … over material wealth.

• Bill and Melinda gates foundation- Medical Research

• Prosperity Gospel

• richness

• “poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven”.

• However, some say that the command to help the poor and imitate Jesus’ attitude to wealth is not as important as the s…. of s…?

• Some even say that the command is not as important because the r… call to give up material wealth is so rare that very few actually do this, e.g: Sister Clare Crockett, St Damien of Molokai’

• Name 3 secular charities?

• salvation of souls

• radical

• welcome organisation

• north belfast foodbank

• muslim aid for Palestinians in Gaza