directly or indirectly
used to produce economic goods and services, such as various machinery and other
means. The concept of land is considered as the sum of all the natural resources that are used
to produce goods and services, such as water, oil, gas, soil, metal and other sources.
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What kind of crisis is at stake? Some scholars 3 believe this crisis to be the one
that started as a financial crisis in the United States of America and is spreading
throughout the globe, growing into an economic and political crisis, but also as
the one that could grow into a social crisis because its consequences are being felt
in the very pulse of society, a society which is more and more split by the divide of
the rich minority class from the poor majority. The various causes for this state of
crisis are cited to include the absence of an organized market and industrial capital,
and the disjunction of work and money due to the appearance of so-called
“virtual money”, but the source of the problem is actually discerned in human
superficiality, greed, and hypocrisy.
Where is Christianity in all of this? To what extent are the gospel and the
subject matter of the Christian faith outside of a political agenda, yet on the other
hand, carry an ethical meaning and message through political action? What is the
purpose of the church? Is there a means to make people into Christ’s disciples,
proclaiming the salvation and redemption of Christianity of which God is at the
center, or merely accomplish the function of the identification of nations by religious
systems based on belonging to the nation and the church?
This article describes the roles that systems, such
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