Hungry Are Dying Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia

Name: Hungry Are Dying Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia
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ISBN: 9780195139129

ISBN-10: 0195139127

ISBN-13: 9780195139129

Edition: 2001

Authors: Susan R. Holman

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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 faminedynamics. In exploring this relationship between cultural context and theological language, this volume offers a broad and fresh overview of these little-studied texts.

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/19/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction: Placing the Poor



Leitourgia and the Poor in the Early Christian World



Hunger: Famine, Relief, and Identity in Basil's Cappadocia



Penury and Divine Gift: The Poor as Fiscal Body



Diseased and Holy: The Peri Philoptochias Sermons and the Transforming Body



Conclusion: Between Courtyard and Altar



Basil of Caesarea, "In Time of Famine and Drought"



Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 1: "On Good Works"



Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 2: "On the Saying, 'Whoever Has Done It to One of These Has Done It to Me'"


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