Poverty in the early church and today : a conversation

The Resource Poverty in the early church and today : a conversation
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Poverty in the early church and today : a conversation
Title remainder
a conversation
Statement of responsibility
edited by Steve Walton and Hannah Swithinbank
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Language
eng
Summary
This innovative volume focuses on the significance of early Christianity for modern means of addressing poverty, by offering a rigorous study of deprivation and its alleviation in both earliest Christianity and today's world. The contributors seek to present the complex ways in which early Christian ideas and practices relate to modern ideas and practices, and vice versa. In this light, the book covers seven major areas of poverty and its causes, benefaction, patronage, donation, wealth and dehumanization, `the undeserving poor', and responsibility. Each area features an expert in early Christianity in its Jewish and Graeco-Roman settings, paired with an expert in modern strategies for addressing poverty and benefaction; each author engages with the same topic from their respective area of expertise, and responds to their partner's essay. Giving careful attention toboth the continuities and discontinuities between the ancient world and today, the contributors seek to inform and engage church leaders, those working in NGOs concerned with poverty, and all interested in these crucial issues, both Christian and not
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Open Access e-Books
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