Charity
Subtitle: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-08-27
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780300181333
Description: In this reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. He shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it.