Is It Right For Christians To Prioritise One Group Over Another?

Question 1

A case can be made that Christianity’s centrally focused on the poor (with ? ? of the actions and teachings of Jesus emphasised that God’s close to the poor and the poor close to God).

Answer 1

Biblical observations.

Question 2

Clodovis and Leonardo Boff argued that God gets involved and takes sides with the ?

Answer 2

Poor.

Question 3

Liberation theology suggests that God takes the side of the poor against the rich and actively works for the ?

Answer 3

Poor.

Question 4

For ?, “to know God as liberator is to liberate, is to do ?”.

Answer 4

Gutierrez.

Justice.

Question 5

The Vatican says ? manifests a dangerous preoccupation with the poor and oppressed in ? ? and believe it’s wrong to prioritise one group over the needs of others.

Answer 5

Sobrino.

Latin America.

Question 6

John Paul II argued that wealth doesn’t shelter people from ? ?

Answer 6

Spiritual poverty.

Question 7

The message of salvation that Jesus brings is a message for all ?

Answer 7

Humanity.

Question 8

If Christians work to reduce ? of all kinds, then they’ll make the world a better place.

Answer 8

Poverty.

Question 9

“Jesus doesn’t idealise the poor, because poverty’s the consequences of the sin of ? possession. He teaches us to abandon the goods of this ? and invites us to share what we have with the poor” (Fitzgerald).

Answer 9

Exclusive.

Earth.