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Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire - Christian Promotion and Practice 313-450 (Hardcover, New)
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Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire - Christian Promotion and Practice 313-450 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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Richard Finn OP examines the significance of almsgiving in Churches
of the later empire for the identity and status of the bishops,
ascetics, and lay people who undertook practices which differed in
kind and context from the almsgiving practised by pagans. It
reveals how the almsgiving crucial in constructing the bishop's
standing was a co-operative task where honour was shared but which
exposed the bishop to criticism and rivalry. Finn details how
practices gained meaning from a discourse which recast traditional
virtues of generosity and justice to render almsgiving a
benefaction and source of honour, and how this pattern of thought
and conduct interacted with classical patterns to generate
controversy. He argues that co-operation and competition in
Christian almsgiving, together with the continued existence of
traditional euergetism, meant that, contrary to the views of recent
scholars, Christian alms did not turn bishops into the supreme
patrons of their cities.
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