Author: Orazio MarucchiPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Christian epigraphy : an elementary treatise ; with a collection of ancient Christian inscriptions mainly of roman origin
Author: Orazio MarucchiPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Christian Epigraphy
Author: Orazio MarucchiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire
Author: Richard Damian FinnPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199283605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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
Author: Richard Finn OPPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191515787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the London Library, St. James Square, London
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Caesar and the Lamb
Author: George KalantzisPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621894487
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Through the available patristic writings Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis not only provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts, he also tells the story of the struggle of the earliest Church, the communities of Christ at the margins of power and society, to bear witness to the nations that enveloped them as they transformed the dominant narratives of citizenship, loyalty, freedom, power, and control. Although Kalantzis examines writings on war and military service in the first three centuries of the Christian Church in an organized manner, the ways earliest Christians thought of themselves and the state are not presented here through the lens of antiquarian curiosity. With theological sensitivity and historical acumen this companion leads the reader into the world in which Christianity arose and asks questions of the past that help us understand the early character of the Christian faith with the hope that such an enterprise will also help us evaluate its expression in our own time.
Dictionary Catalogue of the Byzantine Collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Dumbarton OaksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Byzantine
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2296
Book Description
The United States Catalog
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
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