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Title Reading patristic texts on social ethics : issues and challenges for twenty-first-century Christian social thought / edited by Johan Leemans, Brian J. Matz, Johan Verstraeten.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 272 pages).
Series CUA studies in early Christianity
CUA studies in early Christianity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
Note "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"--Page vii.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism.
Fathers of the church.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
Christian literature, Early. (OCoLC)fst00859261
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00859533
Fathers of the church. (OCoLC)fst00921916
Fathers of the church -- Influence.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Electronic books.
Added Author Leemans, Johan, 1965- Editor.
Matz, Brian J. Editor.
Verstraeten, Johan. Editor.
Other Form: Print version: Reading patristic texts on social ethics. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2011 9780813218595 (DLC) 2010040746 (OCoLC)667873250
ISBN 9780813219103 (electronic bk.)
0813219108 (electronic bk.)
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