The Hungry Are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia
Susan R. Holman
This study examines the theme of poverty in the fourth-century sermons of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory Nysson. These sermons are especially important for what they tell us about the history of poverty relief and the role of fourth century Christian theology in constructing the body of the redemptive, involuntary poor. Some of the topics explored include the contextualization of the poor in scholarship, the poor in late antiquity, and starvation and famine dynamics. In exploring this relationship between cultural context and theological language, this volume offers a broad and fresh overview of these little-studied texts.
年:
2001
出版社:
Oxford University Press, USA
语言:
english
页:
256
ISBN 10:
1423762304
ISBN 13:
9781423762300
系列:
Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
文件:
PDF, 4.91 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001