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Treasure in heaven : the holy poor in early Christianity / Peter Brown.
Van Pelt Library BR195.P68 B76 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Peter, 1935- author.
- Series:
- Richard lectures
- Richard lectures for 2012
- Page-Barbour and Richard lectures series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Poverty.
- Church work with the poor.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Middle East--Church history.
- Middle East.
- Middle East Region.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 162 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 "Treasure in Heaven" and "The Poor among the Saints": Jesus and Paul-Leadership and the Escape from Labor 1
- 2 "Do It through the Bishop": Tricksters, Bishops, and Teachers, ad 200-300 17
- 3 "The Treasuries That Are in the Heights": The Elect, the Catechumens, and the Cosmos in Manichaeism 36
- 4 "In the Likeness of the Angels": Syria and the Debate on Labor 51
- 5 "The Work of the Hands... an Ornament to the Men of Egypt": Monks and Work in Fourth-Century Egypt 71
- 6 "You Are a Human Being... You Must Work... in Order to Eat": The Meanings of Work in Monastic Egypt 89.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-150) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813938288
- 0813938287
- OCLC:
- 911199807
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