Publication

2001-06-25 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing6476922
  • Library of Congress Control Number00058877
  • OCLC Control Number46695232
  • Better World Books9780195139129
  • Open LibraryOL7389361M

Classifications

  • LCCBR195.P68 2001
  • LCCBR195.P68 H65 2001

Description

"Ancient sermons about the poor have often been neglected by scholars in favor of more "theological" themes. Susan R. Holman helps to redress that neglect with this study, the first book-length treatment in any modern language to focus exclusively on a collection of sermons about poverty, starvation, and disease by three leading Christian bishops of late Antiquity: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

One morning in the sixth century, in a cave near the Jordan River, as Sisinius the monk was singing the liturgical office for "the third hour," a Saracen Christian woman entered his cave, took off her clothes, and lay down on the floor.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Hungry Are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)Oxford University Press, USA2001-06-25

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