This Person Is an Imitator of God: Wealth, Philanthropia, and the Addressee of Ad Diognetum
Ad Diognetum includes exhortations to become an imitator of God by acting generously toward neighbors in positions of economic need (10.4-6). This mimesis is not a general Christian ethic, but rather involves a "philanthropic" form of generosity in which wealthier people (like Diognetus) i...
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| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2021
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 309-339 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Diognetus
/ Imitation of God
/ Affluence
/ Philanthropia
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCC Social ethics NCE Business ethics |
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