ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on hope for the economics as monetary exchange in bringing to bear all of the foregoing theological considerations upon a discussion of global poverty, economics and Christian moral action. The issue of global economics and extreme poverty are complex and require the expertise of micro- and macro-economics, political science, colonial and post-colonial history and even issues surrounding medicine and health education. The issues surrounding global economics and poverty are not restricted to monetary exchange, interest rates, supply and demand or the subjects normally associated with the work of economists. The Christological motifs of cross and resurrection are what made God's redemptive promise for all creation available to humanity and secured humanity with the hope of an eschatological end in God's saving work. This Christologically focused orientation to the future via the newly created history received historical efficacy for human action in pneumatology.
