Sentences with phrase «voluntary poverty»

Thus began a period of voluntary poverty during which she received strange words from God, words from the Gospel that spelled a way of life.

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

The danger is that some advocates might promote voluntary poverty or near - poverty as the Christian option while in reality we need to be working as a society to help people work themselves out of poverty.

In fact voluntary poverty remains a luxury available only to the well - to - do, who always seem to have the personal resources and abilities to get back out of it if they should change their minds.

It was while reading Chrysostom on voluntary poverty that I realized that Peter Berger's sociological theory of knowledge elites had long ago been intuited.

If the ultimate cause of Man's exploitation and alienation is selfishness, the deepest reason for voluntary poverty is love of neighbour.»

But it is equally plain that he does not mean to say that by voluntary poverty a man wins for himself a special quality in the sight of God; not poverty but surrender is demanded.

The least extreme advocate voluntary poverty — the most extreme the reduction of global population to a few hundred million this century with the bulk of the Earth left to «rewild».

Although the renunciation of wealth and the embrace of voluntary poverty were highly admired and were required of Christian professionals, no one favored involuntary poverty of the extreme sort, which yet remained widespread.

Education, social skills, «contacts» and experience in the dominant culture are all part of what it means to be «nonpoor,» and since none of these can simply be shed, even someone who has embraced voluntary poverty or some kind of simpler life style remains middle class in the most important respects.

Others relate to disagreements over questions of life style (e.g., «voluntary poverty» versus «good stewardship»), triumphalist proposals of the «Let's get organized and run candidates» type, and the proper relationship between activism and scholarship.

If at a later stage he was poor and homeless, this was a voluntary poverty, embraced for ideal ends.

So if you are a radical Christian, following Jesus in the way of voluntary poverty, what are you to think of the biblical boob - tube fan?

He is the Savior, who holds to the sacred Law but also adds the further requirements — which lead to «life» — of voluntary poverty and obedience to himself.»

Nevertheless, those who were most admired in Christendom were the saints, most of whom led lives of voluntary poverty.

Whatever the values of voluntary poverty, the most salient characteristic of real poverty is that it is not voluntary.