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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2011.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813219103
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR60 .R433 2011
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Contents:
Approaching patristic socio-ethical texts -- Texts that create a future : the function of ancient texts for theology today / Reimund Bieringer -- Challenges in approaching patristic texts from the perspective of contemporary Catholic social teaching / Pauline Allen -- Contexts for patristic socio-ethical texts -- Social ethics and moral discourse in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen -- Wealth, poverty, and eschatology : pre-Constantine Christian social thought and the hope for the world to come / Helen Rhee -- The audience(s) for patristic social teaching : a case study / Wendy Mayer -- Issues in patristic and Catholic social thought -- Out of the fitting room : rethinking patristic social texts on "the common good" / Susan R. Holman -- "That which has been wrung from tears" : usury, the Greek fathers, and Catholic social teaching / Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen -- The principle of detachment from private property in Basil of Caesarea's Homily 6 and its context / Brian Matz -- Social justice in Lactantius's Divine Institutes : an exploration / Thomas Hughson -- Reflections on the theme -- The church fathers and Catholic social thought : reflections on the symposium / Richard Schenk -- The (im)possible dialogue between patristics and Catholic social thought : limits, possibilities, and a way forward / Johan Leemans, Johan Verstraeten.
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"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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Approaching patristic socio-ethical texts -- Texts that create a future : the function of ancient texts for theology today / Reimund Bieringer -- Challenges in approaching patristic texts from the perspective of contemporary Catholic social teaching / Pauline Allen -- Contexts for patristic socio-ethical texts -- Social ethics and moral discourse in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen -- Wealth, poverty, and eschatology : pre-Constantine Christian social thought and the hope for the world to come / Helen Rhee -- The audience(s) for patristic social teaching : a case study / Wendy Mayer -- Issues in patristic and Catholic social thought -- Out of the fitting room : rethinking patristic social texts on "the common good" / Susan R. Holman -- "That which has been wrung from tears" : usury, the Greek fathers, and Catholic social teaching / Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen -- The principle of detachment from private property in Basil of Caesarea's Homily 6 and its context / Brian Matz -- Social justice in Lactantius's Divine Institutes : an exploration / Thomas Hughson -- Reflections on the theme -- The church fathers and Catholic social thought : reflections on the symposium / Richard Schenk -- The (im)possible dialogue between patristics and Catholic social thought : limits, possibilities, and a way forward / Johan Leemans, Johan Verstraeten.

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