Charity and the Poor in Roman Imperial Society
The relationship between moral codes of giving and the hard facts of poverty is complex and problematic. On the one side are different ideologies of giving adopted by persons possessing wealth and other resources. On the other are persons in considerable need who could be the recipients of giving by...
| Published in: | Religion in the Roman empire |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2020]
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Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 229-267 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roman Empire
/ Empire
/ Poverty
/ Wealth
/ Charitable works
/ Moral act
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions CH Christianity and Society KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCC Social ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
the poor
B Poverty B Social Justice B liberality B Philanthropy B Christianity B Bishops B Equality B euergetism B Charity |
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| Summary: | The relationship between moral codes of giving and the hard facts of poverty is complex and problematic. On the one side are different ideologies of giving adopted by persons possessing wealth and other resources. On the other are persons in considerable need who could be the recipients of giving by the well-off. But these two spheres of interest have overlapped only partially in the manner of a classic Venn diagram. Even in the special cases where the givers and recipients were linked by a hypothetical mutual interest and benefit - as with Christian charitable giving - the specific logic remains unclear. Rather than focusing on either wealth or poverty as such, the great social and material inequalities that underlay both are perhaps a better gateway to understanding the place of charity as a type of giving. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2020-0017 |