The Shifting Roles of Wealth and Poverty in Jerome's Vision of Asceticism and the Call to Perfection, as Reflected in a Selection of His Works
This study considers the place of financial renunciation, voluntary poverty and almsgiving in Jerome's ascetic vision, and reveals a delicate balancing act in his advice to wealthy Christians contained in a selection of his letters and treatises. I will investigate the practical realisation of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
[2019]
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Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-78 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCC Social ethics NCE Business ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
call to perfection
B financial renunciation B voluntary poverty B Jerome B Almsgiving B Asceticism B Usury B ascetic self-dispossession |
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