Name: Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity (Richard Lectures) (en Inglés)
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Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9780813938288

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Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity (Richard Lectures) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter Brown

Editorial

University of Virginia Press

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.1 x 14.5 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780813938288

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Historia general y del mundo
Historia de la religión
Cristianismo

Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity (Richard Lectures) (en Inglés)

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The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits--teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them--quite as much as supporting the real poor--has been a way to accumulate eventual treasure in heaven. Yet from the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Christians have argued fiercely about whether monks should work to support themselves. In Treasure in Heaven, renowned historian Peter Brown shifts attention from Western to Eastern Christianity, introducing us to this smoldering debate that took place across the entire Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile. Seen against the backdrop of Asia, Christianity might have opted for a Buddhist model by which holy monks lived by begging alone. Instead, the monks of Egypt upheld an alternative model that linked the monk to humanity and the monastery to society through acceptance of the common, human bond of work. This model of Third World Christianity--a Christianity that we all too easily associate with the West--eventually became the basis for the monasticism of western Europe, as well as for modern Western attitudes to charity and labor. In Treasure in Heaven, Brown shows how and why we are still living--at times uncomfortably--with that choice.

Peter Brown

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Es autor e ilustrador de muchos libros muy queridos como ¡Mi maestra es un monstruo! (No es cierto), El señor Tigre se vuelve salvaje, Children Make Terrible Pets y El jardín curioso. Sus libros han sido bestsellers del New York Times y han sido condecorados con el Caldecott Honor (por Las zanahorias maléficas). Como ilustrador ganó el Children’s Choice Book Award. Robot salvaje es su primera novela.

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