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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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Almsgiving in post reformation England
History of European Ideas, 1988(1988). Almsgiving in post reformation England. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 489-495.
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How Does Almsgiving Purge Sins?
2013tThis chapter discusses the idioms for cleansing or purging function in Second Temple Hebrew. It articulates the author's basic thesis about the evolution of the biblical metaphor for sin. A debt is an obligation that one owes to another. The idiom of sin as a debt allows for a striking new idea to emerge in Israelite religion: the ability to reduce or
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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