By Susan R. Holman
This research examines the subject matter of poverty within the fourth-century sermons of Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory Nysson. those sermons are specifically vital for what they let us know concerning the heritage of poverty reduction and the function of fourth century Christian theology in developing the physique of the redemptive, involuntary negative. a few of the issues explored contain the contextualization of the negative in scholarship, the bad in overdue antiquity, and hunger and famine dynamics. In exploring this dating among cultural context and theological language, this quantity deals a vast and clean review of those little-studied texts.
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1998 NAPS Presidential Address: Building a New City: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Philanthropy," /ECS 7 (1999), 431-61. Another recent overview is that of Mary Sheather, "Pronouncements of the Cappadocians on Issues of Poverty and Wealth," in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, ed. Pauline Allen, Raymond Canning, and Lawrence Cross with B. Janelle Craiger (Everton Park, Queensland Australia: Centre for Early Christian Studies, 1998), 375-92. 56. Key studies include Jean Bernardi, La predication des peres cappadociens: Le predicateur et son auditoire, Publications de la Faculte des lettres et sciences humaines de 1'Universite de Montpellier 30 (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1968); Bernard Coulie, Les richesses dans I'oeuvre de Saint Cregoire de Nazianze: Etude litteraire et historique, Publications de 1'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 32 (Louvain: Catholic University of Louvain, 1985); Michael J.
M. Press, 1974). 50. Luke Johnson, Sharing Possessions: Mandate and Symbol of Faith (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981). 51. Carolyn Osiek, Rich and Poor in the "Shepherd of Hernias": An Exegetical-Social Investigation (Washington, D. : Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1983). 52. Bruce W. Winter, Seek the Welfare of the City: Christians as Benefactors and Citizens (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994). 53. For English translation see Roy J. , "Works and Almsgiving" in idem, Saint Cyprian: Treatises, FC 36 (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1958), 225-53.
Basil and the Gregories describe the incarnate body in great physiologic detail, reflecting the different Christian understanding of how body related to the divine creator. For example, in discussing the fear of leprosy, both Gregories explore their cultural medical beliefs about contagion and healing but affirm that the sick body may represent a spiritual harmony available to the well only by direct physical contact. Gregory of Nyssa is particularly explicit about body parts and functions in both his treatise on the creation of man119 and his Oratio catechetica magna120 and these descriptions contain extensive discussions on the potential of even disharmonious flesh to participate in divinity.