Almsgiving as the Essential Virtue: A Study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom

by Becky Walker

This book seeks to add to common representations in the scholarship on almsgiving in late antiquity concerning the remission of post-baptismal sin, efforts to reform society, and competition between monks and bishops. It demonstrates that John Chrysostom conceptualized almsgiving as not only expiating the sins of the rich, relieving the suffering of the poor, or securing power for its promoters, but also expiating the sins of the poor, unifying the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004687459
• ISBN13: 9789004687455
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 216 Pages