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. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  Catholic University of America Press,  (c)2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 272 pages) 
 - CUA studies in early Christianity .
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Approaching patristic socio-ethical texts --  Texts that create a future : the function of ancient texts for theology today /  Challenges in approaching patristic texts from the perspective of contemporary Catholic social teaching /  Contexts for patristic socio-ethical texts --  Social ethics and moral discourse in late antiquity /  Wealth, poverty, and eschatology : pre-Constantine Christian social thought and the hope for the world to come /  The audience(s) for patristic social teaching : a case study /  Issues in patristic and Catholic social thought --  Out of the fitting room : rethinking patristic social texts on "the common good" /  "That which has been wrung from tears" : usury, the Greek fathers, and Catholic social teaching /  The principle of detachment from private property in Basil of Caesarea's Homily 6 and its context /  Social justice in Lactantius's Divine Institutes : an exploration /  Reflections on the theme --  The church fathers and Catholic social thought : reflections on the symposium /  The (im)possible dialogue between patristics and Catholic social thought : limits, possibilities, and a way forward /  Reimund Bieringer --  Pauline Allen --  Peter Van Nuffelen --  Helen Rhee --  Wendy Mayer --  Susan R. Holman --  Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen --  Brian Matz --  Thomas Hughson --  Richard Schenk --  Johan Leemans, Johan Verstraeten. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813219103 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.<br/>Fathers of the church.<br/>Christian sociology--Catholic Church.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR60  / .R433 2011