Preaching poverty in late antiquity
Subtitle: perceptions and realities
By: Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil, Wendy Mayer
Contributors: Neil, Bronwen; Mayer, Wendy, 1960-
Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte -- Bd. 28; Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte -- Bd. 28.
Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783374027286
Subjects: Poverty; Romeinse rijk; Armen (personen); Church history; History and criticism; Sermons; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pauline Allen and Silke Sitzler; title: Reading the texts : a methodology of approach to genre / Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil, and Wendy Mayer; title: John Chrysostom on poverty / Wendy Mayer; title: Augustine on poverty / Pauline Allen and Edward Morgan; title: Leo I on poverty / Bronwen Neil; title: Conclusions / Bronwen Neil.