[PDF.38ve] Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity

Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity

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 | #1057502 in Books |  2016-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x6.25 x1.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 350 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Though-provoking and dense, but worth interaction!|By sojotheo|David J. Downs is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Downs has an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. Downs is the author of The Offering of the Gentiles: Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem in Its Chronological, Cultural, a| |"Although pervasive in early Judaism and Christianity, 'atoning almsgiving' is terra incognita for most biblical scholars. David Downs illuminates, corrects, clarifies, and synthesizes what can be known of a complex subject that spans both Testaments and reach

Christianity has often understood the death of Jesus on the cross as the sole means for forgiveness of sin. Despite this tradition, David Downs traces the early and sustained presence of yet another means by which Christians imagined atonement for sin: merciful care for the poor.

In Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity, Downs begins by considering the economic context of almsgiving in the Greco-Roman world, a context in which the over...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity   |  David J. Downs. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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