Reading patristic texts on social ethics issues and challenges for twenty-first-century Christian social thought /

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Other Authors: Matz, Brian J.
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Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2011.
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245 0 0 |a Reading patristic texts on social ethics  |b issues and challenges for twenty-first-century Christian social thought /  |c edited by Johan Leemans, Brian J. Matz, Johan Verstraeten. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Catholic University of America Press,  |c c2011. 
300 |a xviii, 272 p. 
500 |a "The contributions for this volume emerged out of an expert seminar on the theme of the Church Fathers and Catholic social thought held in Leuven in 2007." -- p.vii. 
504 |a Includes bibliography (p. 235-263) and index. 
505 0 |a Part I. Approaching Patristic Socio-Ethical Texts : -- 1. Texts that create a future : the function of ancient texts for theology today / Reimund Bieringer -- 2. Challenges in approaching patristic texts from the perspective of contemporary Catholic social teaching / Pauline Allen -- Part II. Contexts for Patristic Socio-Ethical Texts : -- 3. Social ethics and moral discourse in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen -- 4. Wealth, poverty, and eschatology : pre-Constantine Christian social thought and the hope for the world to come / Helen Rhee -- 5. The audience(s) for patristic social teaching : a case study / Wendy Mayer -- Part III. Issues in Patristic and Catholic Social Thought : -- 6. Out of the fitting room : rethinking patristic social texts on "the common good" / Susan R. Holman -- 7. "That which has been wrung from tears" : usury, the Greek fathers, and Catholic social teaching / Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen -- 8. The principle of detachment from private property in Basil of Caesarea's Homily 6 and its context / Brian Matz -- 9. Social justice in Lactantius's Divine Institutes : an exploration / Thomas Hughson -- Part IV. Reflections on the Theme : -- 10. The church fathers and Catholic social thought : reflections on the symposium / Richard Schenk -- 11. The (im)possible dialogue between patristics and Catholic social thought : limits, possibilities, and a way forward / Johan Leemans, Johan Verstraeten. 
650 0 |a Christian literature, Early  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Fathers of the church  |x Influence. 
650 0 |a Christian sociology  |x Catholic Church. 
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