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By Almsgiving and Faith Sins Are Purged? A Critical Analysis of the Theological Underpinnings of Christian Almsgiving in the Second and Third Centuries.

dc.creatorHays, Christopher M., [autor]es_ES
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-21T17:08:45Zes_ES
dc.date.available2018-06-21T17:08:45Zes_ES
dc.date.issued©2009es_ES
dc.identifier.isbn9780802864147es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.repci.co/repositorio/handle/123456789/286es_ES
dc.description.abstractThe present essay aims to describe some of the most prominent theological tributaries in the development of early Christian almsgiving and briefly to assess to what degree we might assent to and endorse these ethical exhortations of the earliest churches. The themes considered will be appeals to charitable giving that are not based on warrants of self-interest and appeals that highlight the benefits accrued to the giver. This latter category examines how almsgiving (a) was construed as a mechanism of purging of the passions, (b) was highlighted as a mechanism for remitting sins, and (c) was encouraged under the threat of eschatological judgment.es_ES
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dc.publisherGrand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2009], ©2009es_ES
dc.relation.ispartofEngaging Economics : New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception.es_ES
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dc.subjectChristian Almsgivinges_ES
dc.titleBy Almsgiving and Faith Sins Are Purged? A Critical Analysis of the Theological Underpinnings of Christian Almsgiving in the Second and Third Centuries.es_ES
dc.typeCapítulo de libroes_ES
dc.rights.holderWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Companyes_ES
dc.description.noteCapítulo 13 del libro: Engaging Economics : New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Receptiones_ES
dc.rights.accessrightsAcceso restringidoes_ES
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dc.coverageMichiganes_ES
dc.audienceEspecializadaes_ES
dc.subject.lembHistoria del cristianismo -- Siglo II y IIIes_ES
dc.subject.lembTeología doctrinal -- Historia de la iglesia -- Siglo II y IIIes_ES
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dc.source.bibliographiccitationAdolf von Harnack, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, trans. James Moffatt, vol. 1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1908), pp. 147- 52es_ES
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dc.source.bibliographiccitationLove is also one of the major grounds on which usury is forbidden in the fathers; Robert P. Maloney, “The Teaching of the Fathers on Usury: An Historical Study on the Development of Christian Thinking,” Vigiliae Christianae 27, no. 4 (1973): 242, 62es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationIgnaz Seipel, Die wirtschaftsethischen Leheren der Kirchenväter, Theologische Studien der Leo-Gesellschaft, vol. 18 (Vienna: Verlag von Mayer, 1907), p. 181es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationOn the textual history of the Two Ways teaching, see F. E. Vokes, “Life and Order in the Early Church: The Didache,” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed. Wolfgang Haase and Hildegard Temporini (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993), pp. 213-16.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationClement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.15; Paed. 2.13; Tertullian, Marc. 4.28 citing Deut 6:5 alongside Luke 11:42; Irenaeus, Haer. 4.12.2-5es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationClement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.6; in this passage Clement draws also on the Matthean version of the pericope, which appends the love command to the abbreviated Decalogue, which the ruler claimed to have observed (Matt 19:19).es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationCyprian, Eleem. 23; Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 30 (cf. 13); Apos. Con. 5.1; Didascalia Apostolorum 5.1.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationClement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.18; Cyprian, Eleem. 16; cf. Clement of Alexandria, Quis. div. 26-27es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationGos. Thom. 14, cf. 6; Ignatius, Smyrn. 6.2; cf. Robert M. Grant, Early Christianity and Society: Seven Studies (London: Collins, 1978), pp. 128-29.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationTertullian, Apol. 39.16; Justin, 1 Apol. 67.es_ES
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dc.source.bibliographiccitationL. W. Countryman, The Rich Christian in the Church of the Early Empire: Contradictions and Accommodations, Texts and Studies in Religion (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1980), p. 80; see also Brian Capper, “The Palestinian Cultural Context of the Earliest Christian Community of Goods,” in The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting, ed. Richard Bauckham, The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp. 323-56es_ES
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dc.source.bibliographiccitationPlato, Resp. 416B-417B; 458C-D; 462B-464A; Laws 679B-Ces_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationCf. Stanislas Giet, “La doctrine de l’appropriation des biens chez quelques-uns des pères,” Recherches de Science Religieuse 35 (1948): 86es_ES
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dc.source.bibliographiccitationConst. ap. 7.12: “you shall share in all . . . you shall not say anything is your own, for the common participation has been prepared for all men by God” (translation mine); so also in Sent. Sextus 227.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationF. Sokolowski, “Fees and Taxes in the Greek Cults,” Harvard Theological Review 47, no. 3 (1954): 153-64. On early Christian organizations as close analogues of Hellenistic collegia, see J. Paul Sampley, “Societas Christi: Roman Law and Paul’s Conception of the Christian Community,” in God’s Christ and His People: Studies in Honour of Nils Alstrup Dahl, ed. Jacob Jervell and Wayne A. Meeks (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1977), pp. 158-74es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationRobert L. Wilken, “Collegia, Philosophical Schools, and Theology,” in Early Church History: The Roman Empire as the Setting of Primitive Christianity, ed. Stephen Benko and John J. O’Rourke (London: Oliphants, 1971), pp. 268-91.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationHerm. Vis. 3.9.3-4; Clement of Alexandria Paed. 2.13; 3.7; Strom. 3.7; Sent. Sextus 115; Hippolytus, Frag. Comm. Matt. 6.11; Ernst Troeltsch, The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, trans. Oliver Wyon, vol. 1, Sir Halley Stewart Publications (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931), p. 116; González, Faith and Wealth, pp. 102-3es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationCountryman, Rich Christian, p. 77; see also Troeltsch, Social Teaching, p. 115.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationSee, for example, Clement of Alexandria’s Stoic definition of passions in Strom. 2.13; similarly Sent. Sextus, 74-75b, cf. 71a; note the similarity to Diogenes Laertius 7.110; cf. S. R. Lilla, Clement of Alexandria: A Study in Christian Platonism and Gnosticism (London: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 84-92.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationIrenaeus, Haer. 4.12.5; Herm. Sim. 10.1.3; Sent. Sextus, 70-72; Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 2.1; compare Gal 5:23-24es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationPs-Clementine Homilies 15.9; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.6es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationClement of Alexandria, Quis. div. 11-12, 14-15; this notion grows in popularity in subsequent centuries, see Augustine, Enarrat. Ps. 51.4, 83; Grig, “Throwing Parties,” pp. 153- 54.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationSee Herm. Vis. 1.2.1; cf. H. B. Swete, “Penitential Discipline in the First Three Centuries,” in Christian Life: Ethics, Morality, and Discipline in the Early Church, ed. Everett Ferguson, Studies in Early Christianity (New York: Garland, 1993), p. 251.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationHerm. Sim. 10.2.4; De Doctrina 4.4-8 (on this document, see Roman Garrison, Redemptive Almsgiving in Early Christianity, JSNTS vol. 77 [Sheffield: JSOT, 1993], pp. 74-75); Origen Hom. in Lev. 2.4; Didascalia Apostolorum 2.26; see also Garrison, Redemptive Almsgiving, pp. 86-107es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationBar. 14.12; Tob 4:5-11; Sir 29:9-13; Lev. Rab. 34.7; Gary Anderson, “Redeem Your Sins by the Giving of Alms: Sin, Debt, and the ‘Treasury of Merit’ in Jewish and Early Christian Tradition,” Letter and Spirit 3 (2007): 49-52es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationtrine in the Old Testament or Judaism, except insofar as the fathers explicitly appeal to certain passages or concepts; on the development of this idea, see Garrison, Redemptive Almsgiving, pp. 46-59; Anderson, “Redeem Your Sins,” pp. 40-54es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationPs-Ign. Hero 5; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.15; Cyprian; Laps. 35; Eleem. 2; Apos. Con. 2.35; 3.1.4; 7.12.es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationInterestingly, the Septuagint of Prov 16:6 adds that righteous deeds are more acceptable to God than sacrifices, similar to Hab 6:6es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationAnderson, “Redeem Your Sins,” pp. 40-43; cf. John J. Collins, Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel, Hermeneia (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), p. 230es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationThough in time it acquired other related referents that in earlier stages would have been more properly construed as dÁs²j; see Cronbach, “The Me{il Zedakah,” pp. 505-6es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitation. See t. Pe}ah 4:19; y. Pe}ah 1:1; 4:19; b. Sukkah 49a-b; Frederick B. Bird, “A Comparative Study of the Work of Charity in Christianity and Judaism,” Journal of Religious Ethics 10, no. 1 (1982): 152; Enc. Jud. V: 340es_ES
dc.source.bibliographiccitationGeorge Foot Moore, Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: The Age of the Tannaim, vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927), p. 171.es_ES


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