Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Richard Finn OP
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-02-23
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire written by Richard Finn OP and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-23 with History categories.
This is a book about the importance of gifts to the poor for Christians in the later Roman empire. It is about what was given, how it was given, who was helped, and how preachers sought to shape these practices. Above all, the book asks what it meant to give to the poor, the virtues it displayed, the role it played in articulating or challenging the standing of bishops, monks, and ordinary lay men and women.
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Richard Finn OP
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-02-23
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire written by Richard Finn OP and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-23 with History categories.
Richard Finn OP examines the significance of almsgiving in Churches of the later empire for the identity and status of the bishops, ascetics, and lay people who undertook practices which differed in kind and context from the almsgiving practised by pagans. It reveals how the almsgiving crucial in constructing the bishop's standing was a co-operative task where honour was shared but which exposed the bishop to criticism and rivalry. Finn details how practices gained meaning from a discourse which recast traditional virtues of generosity and justice to render almsgiving a benefaction and source of honour, and how this pattern of thought and conduct interacted with classical patterns to generate controversy. He argues that co-operation and competition in Christian almsgiving, together with the continued existence of traditional euergetism, meant that, contrary to the views of recent scholars, Christian alms did not turn bishops into the supreme patrons of their cities.
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Richard Finn OP
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire written by Richard Finn OP and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Christian giving categories.
This work highlights the importance of gifts to the poor for Christians in the later Roman Empire. It asks what it meant to give to the poor, the virtues it displayed and the role it played in articulating or challenging the standing of bishops, monks and ordinary lay men and women.
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Richard Damian Finn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire written by Richard Damian Finn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Christian giving categories.
This work highlights the importance of gifts to the poor for Christians in the later Roman Empire. It asks what it meant to give to the poor, the virtues it displayed and the role it played in articulating or challenging the standing of bishops, monks and ordinary lay men and women.
The Christian Promotion And Practice Of Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Richard Damian Finn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Christian Promotion And Practice Of Almsgiving In The Later Roman Empire written by Richard Damian Finn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Charity categories.
Almsgiving As The Essential Virtue
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Author : Becky Walker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-11-13
Almsgiving As The Essential Virtue written by Becky Walker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with Religion categories.
This book seeks to add to common representations in the scholarship on almsgiving in late antiquity concerning the remission of post-baptismal sin, efforts to reform society, and competition between monks and bishops. It demonstrates that John Chrysostom conceptualized almsgiving as not only expiating the sins of the rich, relieving the suffering of the poor, or securing power for its promoters, but also expiating the sins of the poor, unifying the members of his congregation, and making humans like God. Although it could indeed save one from eternal death and physical hunger, it was salvific and transformative on other levels as well.
Harbor For The Poor
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Author : Eric Costanzo
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2013-03-20
Harbor For The Poor written by Eric Costanzo and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-20 with Religion categories.
Urban poverty in the developed world is an ever-present problem, and Christian approaches to poverty throughout history have much to teach us. The practice of almsgiving, which is the consistent practice of giving and sharing resources to meet the needs of the poor, is a sadly neglected part of this Christian heritage. This book explores the Christian lifestyle of almsgiving through the study of John Chrysostom. The sermons and writings of John Chrysostom (c.347-407 CE), pastor in Antioch and archbishop of Constantinople, contain perhaps the greatest concentration of teaching on almsgiving in all of Christian literature. John's teaching on almsgiving was both biblical and practical, and his ministry helped strengthen care for the poor throughout the Roman Empire of late antiquity. John preached his sermons to congregations filled with people who lived very comfortable lives. From his perspective, the churches of Antioch and Constantinople had grown complacent regarding poverty, when in fact God had called them to become a harbor for the poor.
Poverty And Leadership In The Later Roman Empire
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Author : Peter Brown
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2002
Poverty And Leadership In The Later Roman Empire written by Peter Brown and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions.
Preaching Poverty In Late Antiquity
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Author : Pauline Allen
language : en
Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Release Date : 2009
Preaching Poverty In Late Antiquity written by Pauline Allen and has been published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Religion categories.
In 2002 the influential scholar of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown, published a series of lectures as a monograph titled Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. Brown set out to explain a trend in the late Roman world observed in the 1970s by French social and economic historians, especially Paul Veyne and Evelyn Patlagean, namely that prior to the fourth century and the rise in dominance of Christianity, the poor in society went unrecognized as an economic category. This corresponded with the Greco-Roman understanding of patronage, whereby the state and private donors concentrated their largesse upon the citizen body. Non-citizens, for instance, were excluded from the dole system, in which grain was distributed to citizens of a city regardless of their economic status. By the end of the sixth century, rich and poor were not only recognized economic categories, but the largesse of private citizens was now focused on the poor. Brown proposed that the Christian bishop lay at the heart of this change. The authors set out to test Brown's thesis amid growing interest in the poor and their role in early Christianity and in Late Antique society. They find that the development and its causes were more subtle and complex than Brown proposed and that his account is inadequate on a number of crucial points including rhetorical distortion of the realities of poverty in episcopal letters, homilies and hagiography, the episcopal emphasis on discriminate giving and self-interested giving, and the degree to which existing civic patronage structures adhered in the Later Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries.
Asceticism In The Graeco Roman World
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Author : Richard Finn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-02
Asceticism In The Graeco Roman World written by Richard Finn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with History categories.
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first time a combined study of the major ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately. He examines how people abstained from food, drink, sexual relations, sleep, and wealth; what they meant by their behaviour; and how they influenced others in the Graeco-Roman world. Against this background, the book charts the rise of monasticism in Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, assessing the crucial role played by the third-century exegete, Origen, and asks why monasticism developed so variously in different regions.