Date of Award

7-1978

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Abstract

Economic poverty is essentially thought of negatively, bringing with it destitution, disease, hunger and the lacking of vital necessities. Yet at the same time, history has given examples of those who openly embrace a life which renounces material goods and possessions. It is a life of voluntary poverty, in which an individual chooses to live poorly as a result of a higher motivation. It is not a life of destitution, but a life marked by living only with what is necessary. The lives of Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement are an example of those who lived lives of voluntary poverty out of the motivation of following the Christian gospel. The Catholic Worker story, of which these two are the authors, is one of recent origin and which continues today.

Comments

An Essay Submitted to the Graduate School, Marquette University , in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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