The good works reader
By: Thomas C. Oden.
Series: Classic Christian readers
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780802840318
Subjects: Good works (Theology)
Description: Oden listens to the timeless teaching of the patristic writers, the theologians who defined orthodoxy in the first five centuries after Christ. His listening extends not only to well-known fathers such as Augustine, Irenaeus, and Eusebius, but also to lesser-known yet no less important fathers such as Oecumenius, Pseudo-Basil, and Peter Chrysologus. Oden's masterly compendium of classic Christian teaching covers treatment of the poor, the outcast, the imprisoned, and "the least of these." Anyone involved in any ministry of compassion will find stunning spiritual resources here.