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Reviewing Calvin’s eradication strategy to poverty biblically from a Missio Dei perspective

In die Skriflig

 
 
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Title Reviewing Calvin’s eradication strategy to poverty biblically from a Missio Dei perspective
 
Creator Muswubi, Takalani A.
 
Subject Theology (Missiology studies) poverty; eradication strategy; glocally; John Calvin; Missio Dei
Description Most of the marginalised and underprivileged people across the globe live in the vicious cycle of poverty. Poverty is a thorny issue. The World Justice Project (WJP) estimated that two thirds of the world’s population are not only confronted by multiple injustices which include the civil, administrative, or criminal justices, but they are also living in a vicious cycle of being marginalised and underprivileged across the planet. The poverty-stricken victims are left hopeless and helpless due to unfair socio-economic and justice systems. Attempts are coming from different fronts on how to eradicate poverty. The researcher realised the two extreme ends of these attempts, namely the rich-oriented capitalist and the poor-oriented socialist extremist. Their debates around poverty tend more to a dichotomy contestation. The question is how can the best of their contestation be utilised for poverty eradication locally and globally. The problem that this article is addressing, is the underlying misconceptions which comes to the fore in the contestation between the rich and the poor in their attempts to eradicate poverty. When such misconceptions are left unchecked, they hinder any attempts or efforts from both sides to obey God’s missional call to eradicate poverty.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article adds the voice (value) regarding addressing the rich-oriented capitalist and the poor-oriented socialist extremist in their attempts to eradicate poverty, conscientizing them that, as they have the same make-up and Maker despite their positions and conditions in life and therefore, based on the ecodomy framework for equitable justice, they should make a conscious decision to eradicate poverty as their missional call before their Maker.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor Missiology department, Potchefstroom Campus of NWU
Date 2023-11-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Missional and literal studies
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ids.v57i1.2960
 
Source In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 57, No 1 (2023); 7 pages 2305-0853 1018-6441
 
Language eng
 
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https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2960/8029 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2960/8030 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2960/8031 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2960/8032
 
Coverage Intercultural context of South Africa and beyond Intercultural context of South Africa and beyond Individual Christian Christians of all ages, gender and ethnicity
Rights Copyright (c) 2023 Takalani Aaron Muswubi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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