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Maimonides on Almsgiving

Levinas Studies, 2023
Levinas’s analysis of the relationship between ethics, with its uncompromising responsibility, and politics, with its compromises, is difficult. An examination Maimonides’s chapters on charity may help us understand it. According to Maimonides, one is commanded to give the poor person everything he or she lacks, including clothes, furniture, a spouse ...
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Augustine's Homily on Almsgiving

Journal of Early Christian History, 2013
Only one of Augustine's homilies (Sermo 350b) has been entitled by the various editors of his more than five hundred homilies as being on almsgiving, even though it is a topic that occurs in quite a number of them. In fact, his ideas about almsgiving are more developed in some of them than in this particular sermon.
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Almsgiving

The Life of the Spirit, 1945
[Vitoria’s commentary on the Summa includes an elaborate discussion of the duty of almsgiving (on II-II, 32, 5). It is in many ways of great interest, but is too long and sometimes too intricate to encourage detailed translation here. I give in brief paraphrase the main steps of the reasoning, neglect some bypaths of argument, and translate in full one
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Almsgiving versus Usury

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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Almsgiving as Patronage:

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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