THEOLOGY 4 CONTEMPORARY WORLD UNIT 3 - HARMONY WITH ALL CREATION: CALLED TO STEWARDSHIP LESSON 2: JUSTICE FOR THE POOR

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Poverty Threshold

The minimum income required for an individual or a family to meet the basic food and non-food needs, also known as the Poverty Line.

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Poverty Incidence

The proportion of individuals or families with income less than the Poverty Threshold to the total number of families or individuals.

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Food Threshold

The minimum income required for an individual or family to meet the basic food needs, which satisfy the nutritional requirements for economically necessary and socially desirable physical activities.

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Subsistence Incidence

The proportion of individuals or families with income less than the Food Threshold to the total number of families or individuals.

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Inseparable Bond

Links concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace.

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Ecological Approach

Always becomes a social approach.

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mining operations effects

have ill effects on the environment and on the people, particularly indigenous communities.

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effects of climate change

cause irreversible damage to agriculture, marine resources and the entire bio-networks.

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Societal indifference to climate change

immoral as it affects even the innocent, especially the poor, whose means of subsistence are largely dependent on natural reserves and eco-systemic services.

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Intergenerational Solidarity

not optional, but rather a basic issue of justice, since the world we have received also belongs to those who will follow us.

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Human Ecology

demands a social ecology and humanity, if it truly desires peace, must be increasingly conscious of the links between natural ecology, or respect for nature, and human ecology

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Old Testament Witness

Israel's experience of oppression in Egypt and how God delivered His people from slavery and injustice through his servant, Moses.

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New Testament Witness

Christ proclaims and actualizes the Good News to the Poor bringing liberty to the oppressed, recovery of sight to the blind and freedom to captives as the prophets had foretold

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Poverty that Dehumanizes

Material: Personal destitution, Societal exclusion, Global consumerism. Moral: slavery to vice or sin, corruption, inequality. Spiritual: loneliness and hopelessness, religious intolerance, relativism.

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Poverty that Sanctifies

Material simplicity, Moral commitment to the Good, the Just and the True, Spiritual surrender to God.

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Subsidiarity

An approach in community development that dignify and empower so they will not remain dependent on external help for their needs but be able to identify and tap their own available resources in order to help themselves.

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The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’

contemporary ecological crisis points to the amnesia (forgetfulness)

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Zekharyah

from the Hebrew name, meaning God Has Remembered