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Preaching Poverty in Late Antiquity

Author : Pauline Allen
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
ISBN 13 : 3374027288
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Preaching Poverty in Late Antiquity written by Pauline Allen and published by Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651468
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire written by Peter Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent classical scholar on the emergence of one of our most familiar social divisions.

The Hungry Are Dying:Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia

Author : Susan R. Holman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195139129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hungry Are Dying:Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia by : Susan R. Holman

Download or read book The Hungry Are Dying:Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia written by Susan R. Holman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity

Author : Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317055446
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity written by Geoffrey Greatrex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature, and many aspects of this are discussed in this volume - the composition of church history, the collection of papal letters, heresiology, homiletics and apologetic. Contributors discuss authors such as John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, Jerome, Liberatus of Carthage, Victor of Vita, and Epiphanius of Salamis as well as the Collectio Avellana. Secular literature too, however, underwent important changes, notably in Constantinople in the sixth century. Several chapters accordingly reassess the work of Procopius of Caesarea and literature of this period; attention is also given to the evolution of the chronicle genre. Technical writing, such as military manuals and legal texts, are the focus of other chapters; further genres considered include monody, epigraphy and epistolography. Changes in visual representation are also considered in chapters devoted to diptychs, monuments and coins. A common theme that emerges from the chapters is the flexibility and adaptability of genres in the period: late antique authors, whether orators or historians, were not slavish followers of their classical predecessors. They were capable of engaging with their models, adapting them to their own purposes, and producing work that deserves to be considered on its own merits. It is necessary to examine their texts and genres closely to grasp what they set out to do; on occasion, attention must also be paid to the transmission of these texts. The volume as a whole represents a significant contribution to the reassessment of late antique culture in general.

Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity

Author : Gerasimos Merianos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137564091
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity written by Gerasimos Merianos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Pelusium, and Theodoret of Cyrrhus, to hoarding and saving intertwined with stances toward the moral and social obligations of the wealthy. It also demonstrates how these Fathers responded to conditions and practices in urban economic environments characterized by sharp inequalities. Their attitudes reflect the gradual widening of Christian congregations, but also the consequences of the socio-economic evolution of the late antique Eastern Roman Empire. Among the issues discussed in the book are the justification of wealth, alternatives to hoarding, and the reception of patristic views by contemporaries.

Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE)

Author : Pauline Allen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900425482X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE) by : Pauline Allen

Download or read book Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE) written by Pauline Allen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil investigate crisis management as conducted by the increasingly important episcopal class in the 5th and 6th centuries. Their basic source is the neglected corpus of bishops’ letters in Greek and Latin, the letter being the most significant mode of communication and information-transfer in the period from 410 to 590 CE. The volume brings together into a wider setting a wealth of previous international research on episcopal strategies for dealing with crises of various kinds. Six broad categories of crisis are identified and analysed: population displacement, natural disasters, religious disputes and religious violence, social abuses and the breakdown of the structures of dependence. Individual case-studies of episcopal management are provided for each of these categories. This is the first comprehensive treatment of crisis management in the late-antique world, and the first survey of episcopal letter-writing across the later Roman empire.

Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society

Author : Susan R. Holman
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080103549X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society by : Susan R. Holman

Download or read book Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society written by Susan R. Holman and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ecumenical roster of leading specialists approach wealth and poverty through the theology, social practices, and institutions of early Christianity.

Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium

Author : Geoffrey Dunn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301577
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Christians Shaping Identity from the Roman Empire to Byzantium written by Geoffrey Dunn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians Shaping Identity explores different ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them to the 12th century C.E. It also illustrates how modern readings of that past continue to shape Christian identity.

Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought

Author : Jaclyn L. Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108936091
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought by : Jaclyn L. Maxwell

Download or read book Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian Thought written by Jaclyn L. Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social values of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity often contrasted with the modest backgrounds of their religion's founders – the apostles – and the virtues they exemplified. Drawing on examples from the Cappadocian Fathers, John Chrysostom, and other late antique authors, this book examines attitudes toward the apostles' status as manual workers and their virtues of simplicity and humility. Due to the strong connection between these traits and low socioeconomic status, late antique bishops often allowed their own high standing to influence how they understood these matters. The virtues of simplicity and humility had been a natural fit for tentmakers and fishermen, but posed a significant challenge to Christians born into the elite and trained in prestigious schools. This volume examines the socioeconomic implications of Christianity in the Roman Empire by considering how the first wave of powerful, upper-class church leaders interpreted the socially radical elements of their religion.

Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author : Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000644995
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a diverse and complex analysis of life in antiquity, from the archaic to the late antique period. The sections on Greece, Rome, and Late Antiquity offer in-depth studies of ancient life, integrating analysis of socio-economic dynamics and cultural and discursive strategies that shaped this crucial element of ancient (and modern) societies. Themes like social cohesion and control, exclusion, gender, agency, and identity are explored through the combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence, presenting a rich panorama of Greco-Roman societies and a stimulating collection of new approaches and methodologies for their understanding. The book offers a comprehensive view of the ancient world, analysing different social groups – from wealthy elites to poor peasants and the destitute – and their interactions, in contexts as diverse as Classical Athens and Sparta, imperial Rome, and the late antique towns of Egypt and North Africa. Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Discourses and Realities is a valuable resource for students and scholars of ancient history, classical literature, and archaeology. In addition, topics covered in the book are of interest to social scientists, scholars of religion, and historians working on poverty and social history in other periods.

Controlling Contested Places

Author : Christine Shepardson
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520303377
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Controlling Contested Places written by Christine Shepardson and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through the topographically sensitive vocabulary of cultural geography, demonstrating the critical role played by physical and rhetorical spatial contests during the tumultuous fourth century. Paying close attention to the manipulation of physical places, Christine Shepardson exposes some of the powerful forces that structured the development of religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the late Roman Empire. Theological claims and political support were not the only significant factors in determining which Christian communities gained authority around the Empire. Rather, Antioch’s urban and rural places, far from being an inert backdrop against which events transpired, were ever-shifting sites of, and tools for, the negotiation of power, authority, and religious identity. This book traces the ways in which leaders like John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and Libanius encouraged their audiences to modify their daily behaviors and transform their interpretation of the world (and landscape) around them. Shepardson argues that examples from Antioch were echoed around the Mediterranean world, and similar types of physical and rhetorical manipulations continue to shape the politics of identity and perceptions of religious orthodoxy to this day.

Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity

Author : Johan Leemans
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268558
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity by : Johan Leemans

Download or read book Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity written by Johan Leemans and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of a new bishop was a defining moment for local Christian communities in Late Antiquity. This volume contributes to a reassessment of the phenomenon of episcopal elections from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process. Building on the state of the art regarding late antique bishops and episcopal election, this interdisciplinary volume of collected studies by leading scholars offers fresh perspectives by focussing on specific case-studies and opening up new approaches.

The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics

Author : Paul Oslington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199389535
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics written by Paul Oslington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many important contemporary debates cross economics and religion, in turn raising questions about the relationship between the two fields. This book, edited by a leader in the new interdisciplinary field of economics and religion and with contributions by experts on different aspects of the relationship between economics and Christianity, maps the current state of scholarship and points to new directions for the field. It covers the history of the relationship between economics and Christianity, economic thinking in the main Christian traditions, and the role of religion in economic development, as well as new work on the economics of religious behavior and religious markets and topics of debate between economists and theologians. It is essential reading for economists concerned with the foundations of their discipline, historians, moral philosophers, theologians seeking to engage with economics, and public policy researchers and practitioners.

Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004681132
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How on earth can humans be perfect? The striving for perfection has always occupied a central place in ancient Greek culture. This dynamics urged the Greeks on to surpass themselves in different fields, from sculpture and architecture over athletics to philosophy. In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and Christianity. Their studies yield a fascinating panorama of various attempts to bridge the unbridgeable and assimilate our frail, imperfect human nature as far as possible to divine perfection.

Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity

Author : Paul C. Dilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316878589
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity written by Paul C. Dilley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdisciplinary field of cognitive studies, especially anthropology, in his analysis of key monastic 'cognitive disciplines', such as meditation on scripture, the fear of God, and prayer. In addition, various rituals distinctive to communal monasticism, including entrance procedures, the commemoration of founders, and collective repentance, are given their first extended analysis. Participants engaged in 'heart-work' on their thoughts and emotions, which were understood to reflect the community's spiritual state. This book will be of interest to scholars of early Christianity and the ancient world more generally for its detailed description of communal monastic culture and its innovative methodology.

The Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity

Author : Geoffrey D. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317040368
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity written by Geoffrey D. Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times over the past millennium bishops of Rome have claimed a universal primacy of jurisdiction over all Christians and a superiority over civil authority. Reactions to these claims have shaped the modern world profoundly. Did the Roman bishop make such claims in the millennium prior to that? The essays in this volume from international experts in the field examine the bishop of Rome in late antiquity from the time of Constantine at the start of the fourth century to the death of Gregory the Great at the beginning of the seventh. These were important periods as Christianity underwent enormous transformation in a time of change. The essays concentrate on how the holders of the office perceived and exercised their episcopal responsibilities and prerogatives within the city or in relation to both civic administration and other churches in other areas, particularly as revealed through the surviving correspondence. With several of the contributors examining the same evidence from different perspectives, this volume canvasses a wide range of opinions about the nature of papal power in the world of late antiquity.

The Power of Patristic Preaching

Author : Andrew Hofer, OP
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813236533
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Patristic Preaching written by Andrew Hofer, OP and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Word made flesh is manifested in the lives of those dedicated to his proclamation. The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh presents seven early preachers who show, by life and speech, the divine Word’s power at work in weak human life. The book is inspired by this question preached by Origen, “For what does it profit if I should say that Jesus has come in that flesh alone which he received from Mary and I should not show also that he has come in this flesh of mine?” In seven chapters, The Power of Patristic Preaching studies the exemplars of Origen for holiness, Ephrem for the humility of repentance, Gregory of Nazianzus for purification and faith, John Chrysostom for the hope of salvation, Augustine for love, Leo the Great for love of the poor and the weak, and Gregory the Great for accepting our own weakness. With an emphasis on the incarnation, deification through the virtues, and proclamation, The Power of Patristic Preaching serves as a resource for those dedicated to the ministry of the Word (clerical, religious, and lay), and as a text for students of early Christian theology and practices. A Catholic work for a broad ecumenical audience, the book gives a cry from the heart in a suffering Church traveling through a world that is passing away.