Early Christian Care for the Poor

An Alternative Subsistence Strategy under Roman Imperial Rule

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Reference, History, Christianity, Church, Church History
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Author: K. C. Richardson ISBN: 9781498296533
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers Publication: August 3, 2018
Imprint: Cascade Books Language: English
Author: K. C. Richardson
ISBN: 9781498296533
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Publication: August 3, 2018
Imprint: Cascade Books
Language: English

Beginning with Jesus's ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries as the movement expanded geographically and numerically throughout the Roman world, the Christians organized their house churches, at least in part, to provide subsistence insurance for their needy members. While the Pax Romana created conditions of relative peace and growing prosperity, the problem of poverty persisted in Rome's fundamentally agrarian economy. Modeling their economic values and practices on the traditional patterns of the rural village, the Christians created an alternative subsistence strategy in the cities of the Roman empire by emphasizing need, rather than virtue, as the main criterion for determining the recipients of their generous giving.

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Beginning with Jesus's ministry in the villages of Galilee and continuing over the course of the first three centuries as the movement expanded geographically and numerically throughout the Roman world, the Christians organized their house churches, at least in part, to provide subsistence insurance for their needy members. While the Pax Romana created conditions of relative peace and growing prosperity, the problem of poverty persisted in Rome's fundamentally agrarian economy. Modeling their economic values and practices on the traditional patterns of the rural village, the Christians created an alternative subsistence strategy in the cities of the Roman empire by emphasizing need, rather than virtue, as the main criterion for determining the recipients of their generous giving.

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