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Throughout much of history, the Roman Catholic Church was aligned with the rich and powerful of society and, with a few notable exceptions, showed little, if any, concern about the poor and marginalized. The church traditionally justified this disregard for temporal matters by using an approach known as the “distinction of planes,” which argued that there were two planes of existence: the sacred plane (the concern of the church) and the secular plane (the concern of secular society) (Smith 1975). Any potentially destabilizing influences emerging from a discussion of Jesus’ love for the poor in the scriptures were blunted by making it abundantly clear that any poverty being referred to was spiritual poverty and not material poverty (Nangle 2004).
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Holden, W., Nadeau, K., Porio, E. (2017). Ecological Liberation Theology and the Philippines. In: Ecological Liberation Theology. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50782-8_8
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