Religion, poverty and wealth

Religious views of wealth and of the causes of hunger, poverty and disease

• Wealth
• Causes of hunger, poverty and disease
• Responses to the needs of the starving, the poor and the sick

Concern for others

• Biblical teaching about caring for others
• Understandings of ‘charity’
• Different ways charity is put into practice

The uses of money

• Teachings about the use of money (eg gambling, lending)
• Giving to charity

Moral and immoral occupations

• Concept of moral and immoral
• Teachings about moral and immoral occupations
• Impact of teachings on believers