Treasure in heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity 9780813938295, 0813938295

The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real"

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Treasure in heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity
9780813938295, 0813938295

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Peter Brown

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Table of contents :
Machine generated contents note: 1."Treasure in Heaven" and "The Poor among the Saints": Jesus and Paul --
Leadership and the Escape from Labor --
2."Do It through the Bishop": Tricksters, Bishops, and Teachers, AD 200 --
300 --
3."The Treasuries That Are in the Heights": The Elect, the Catechumens, and the Cosmos in Manichaeism --
4."In the Likeness of the Angels": Syria and the Debate on Labor --
5."The Work of the Hands ... an Ornament to the Men of Egypt": Monks and Work in Fourth-Century Egypt --
6."You Are a Human Being ... You Must Work ... in Order to Eat": The Meanings of Work in Monastic Egypt.

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