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Almsgiving as the Essential Virtue: A Study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom

by Becky Walker

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.6 x 23.8 x 1.9 cm

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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.
  • Title

    Almsgiving as the Essential Virtue: A Study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    October 2023

  • Weight

    359g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.8 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004687455

  • ISBN-10

    9004687459

  • Eden Code

    6290945

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