Alms
Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity
Christianity has often understood the death of Jesus on the cross as the sole means for forgiveness of sin. Despite this tradition, David Downs traces the early and sustained presence of yet another means by which Christians imagined atonement for sin: merciful care for the poor. In Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity, Downs begins by considering the economic context of almsgiving in the Greco-Roman world, a context in which the overwhelming reality of poverty cultivated the formation of relationships of reciprocity and solidarity. Downs then provides detailed examinations of almsgiving and the rewards associated with i…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60258-999-5
- EAN: 9781602589995
- Produktnummer: 34314490
- Verlag: Bucknell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'288 KB
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David J. Downs
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