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2000
The Hebrews were the first people to condemn interest-bearing loans. The Old Testament forbids it in three different places:
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The Hebrews were the first people to condemn interest-bearing loans. The Old Testament forbids it in three different places:
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2017
In the social world of the third century Roman Empire the most important determinant of political and social status and advancement was the giving and receiving of patronage. By means of a close study of two of Cyprian of Carthage’s well known treatises, De opere et eleemosynis (On Almsgiving) and De habitu virginum (On the Dress of Virgins) within ...
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In the social world of the third century Roman Empire the most important determinant of political and social status and advancement was the giving and receiving of patronage. By means of a close study of two of Cyprian of Carthage’s well known treatises, De opere et eleemosynis (On Almsgiving) and De habitu virginum (On the Dress of Virgins) within ...
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Almsgiving and the Animal Offering
2000The giving of charity takes several forms in Islam. Charity, or sadaka, is a Kur’anic term and a generic virtue urged on Muslims at all times. Muslims see themselves as a community of worship and a community of charity, as those who bear ultimate truth and those who serve humanity.
Adil Özdemir, Kenneth Frank
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`Blessed is Poverty'. Leo the Great on Almsgiving
Sacris Erudiri, 2007The author focuses on seven homilies in which Leo the Great (440-461) makes use of the Matthean Beatitudes to comment on proper attitudes towards wealth and poverty, referring to three verses in particular: (Matt 5:3, 6-7). The author examines how these verses from Matt 5 were interpreted to provide the wealthy with a self-interested reason for giving ...
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Paul, divestment, and salvific almsgiving
This dissertation pursues an answer to two interrelated questions: (i) to what extent did Paul believe Christ-followers should divest their possessions on behalf of the poor and (ii) what role, if any, did Paul believe almsgiving could play in the attainment of salvation?openaire +1 more source