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- catalog abstract ""Ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected by scholars in favor of more "theological" themes. Susan R. Holman helps to redress that neglect with this study, the first book-length treatment in any modern language to focus exclusively on a collection of sermons about poverty, starvation, and disease by three leading Christian bishops of late Antiquity: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11969425.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected by scholars in favor of more "theological" themes. Susan R. Holman helps to redress that neglect with this study, the first book-length treatment in any modern language to focus exclusively on a collection of sermons about poverty, starvation, and disease by three leading Christian bishops of late Antiquity: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-221) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Placing the Poor -- 1. Leitourgia and the Poor in the Early Christian World -- 2. Hunger: Famine, Relief, and Identity in Basil's Cappadocia -- 3. Penury and Divine Gift: The Poor as Fiscal Body -- 4. Diseased and Holy: The Peri Philoptochias Sermons and the Transforming Body -- 5. Conclusion: Between Courtyard and Altar -- App. A. Basil of Caesarea, "In Time of Famine and Drought" -- App. B. Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 1: "On Good Works" -- App. C. Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 2: "On the Saying, 'Whoever Has Done It to One of These Has Done It to Me'"".
- catalog extent "xvii, 231 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195139127 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in historical theology".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Cappadocia".
- catalog subject "BR195.P68 .H65 2001X".
- catalog subject "Cappadocian Fathers.".
- catalog subject "Poverty Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Poverty Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Poverty Religious aspects Christianity Sermons History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Sermons, Greek Turkey Cappadocia History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Placing the Poor -- 1. Leitourgia and the Poor in the Early Christian World -- 2. Hunger: Famine, Relief, and Identity in Basil's Cappadocia -- 3. Penury and Divine Gift: The Poor as Fiscal Body -- 4. Diseased and Holy: The Peri Philoptochias Sermons and the Transforming Body -- 5. Conclusion: Between Courtyard and Altar -- App. A. Basil of Caesarea, "In Time of Famine and Drought" -- App. B. Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 1: "On Good Works" -- App. C. Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Love of the Poor" 2: "On the Saying, 'Whoever Has Done It to One of These Has Done It to Me'"".
- catalog title "The hungry are dying : beggars and bishops in Roman Cappadocia / Susan R. Holman.".
- catalog type "text".