LEADER 03354nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910953514703321 005 20251116182704.0 010 $a9780300183733 010 $a0300183739 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300183733 035 $a(CKB)2550000001110691 035 $a(EBL)3421261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949839 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12402016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949839 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11003033 035 $a(PQKB)11322583 035 $a(DE-B1597)486111 035 $a(OCoLC)855020302 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300183733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421261 035 $a(Perlego)1089191 035 $z(OCoLC)1109357383 035 $z(OCoLC)855020302 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001110691 100 $a20130108d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharity $ethe place of the poor in the Biblical tradition /$fGary A. Anderson 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780300181333 311 08$a0300181337 311 08$a9781299781047 311 08$a1299781047 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1. The Challenge of Charity --$t2. Charity as Service to God --$t3. A Loan to God --$t4. Material Wealth and its Deceptions --$t5. Deliverance from Death --$t6. Is Charity Always Rewarded? --$t7. Charity and the Goodness of Creation --$t8. Can Merits be Transferred? --$t9. Storing Good Works in Heaven --$t10. Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving --$t11. Sacrificial Giving --$t12. Deliverance from Purgatory --$t13. Conclusion: Your Alms Are a Memorial --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex of Ancient Sources 330 $aIt has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theaters and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians, the poor achieved the importance they did primarily because they were thought to be "living altars," a place to make a sacrifice, a loan to God that he, as the ultimate guarantor, could be trusted to repay in turn. Contrary to the assertions of Reformation and modern critiques, belief in a heavenly treasury was not just about self-interest. Sifting through biblical and postbiblical texts, Anderson shows how charity affirms the goodness of the created order; the world was created through charity and therefore rewards it. 606 $aCharity$xBiblical teaching 606 $aChristianity 615 0$aCharity$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aChristianity. 676 $a241/.4 700 $aAnderson$b Gary A.$f1955-$0768185 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953514703321 996 $aCharity$94352033 997 $aUNINA