Il dono e i poveri: La trattazione de beneficiis nel de officiis ministrorum di Ambrogio
In Ambrose’s De officiis ministrorum some passages deal with beneficia and beneficientia: according to the traditional description of the princeps-pater, here God appears as a central figure in the gift world. God hereafter dispenses an abundant compensation to give new significance to the beneficie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Brepols
2011
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2011, Volume: 50, Pages: 133-183 |
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| Summary: | In Ambrose’s De officiis ministrorum some passages deal with beneficia and beneficientia: according to the traditional description of the princeps-pater, here God appears as a central figure in the gift world. God hereafter dispenses an abundant compensation to give new significance to the beneficientia inter pares. The beneficium creates a joining of society because of grace ties in the Church community. Ambrose rewrites human habits in the framework of a ‘ultramundane eternal’ that belittles worldly goods, but doesn’t escape contemporary social phenomena. Ambrose urges his audience to misericordia as gift relation’s first step and to the Christian theory of poor and guest as Christ’s earthly incarnations |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.1.102626 |