RT Review
T1 Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire: Christian Promotion and Practice 313–450. By Richard Finn, OP
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 58
IS 2
SP 710
OP 712
A1 Hartney, Aideen
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783721626
AB Richard Finn begins his work on almsgiving in the Roman Empire with some interesting questions. In the first place he wonders whether almsgiving as it emerged in Late Antiquity was a uniquely Christian concept, or whether pagan antecedents to the practice can be found. In the second place he proposes to examine the extent to which almsgiving as promoted by the church authorities might have affected the practices of public benefaction or euergetism as means by which citizens demonstrated their commitment to the civic community., By way of answering these questions, Finn speaks at first about the status and power of the Christian bishop within late antique society.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flm064