Document Type
Formal Lecture
Publication Date
Fall 11-17-2020
Abstract
How do Christians face the challenge of poverty? This paper proposes a grace-based approach to poverty. By recognizing our poverty and how God has shown grace to us, we are inspired to care for the poverty of others. The problem of the poor, which includes us, is not material poverty but broken relationships. Solving poverty requires that one enter into the world of the poor person and to see the richness that they have, even in their material poverty. The entire system of broken relationships must be repaired and the goal must be the restoration of shalom. We will therefore treat poverty in both systemic and holistic ways.
Recommended Citation
Parker, Alan, "For Our Sakes: An Incarnational and Systemic Approach to the Challenge of Poverty" (2020). Faculty Works. 1.
https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/facworks_rel/1