Reading Patristic Texts on Social Ethics - Issues Challenges for Twenty first century Christian Social Thought

Klappentext "The contributions for this volume emerged out of an expert seminar on the theme of the Church Fathers and Catholic social thought held in Leuven in 2007." -- p.vii. Zusammenfassung Can writings of the church fathers related to the field of social ethics be of value to contemporary discussions on the topic? In addressing this question! the authors of this book discuss the exciting challenges that scholars of both early Christianity and contemporary Catholic social thought face regarding the interaction of historical sources and present issues.

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• Authors: Johan (EDT)/ Matz Leemans, John Leemans
• Assisted by: Johan Leemans (Editor), Brian J. Matz (Editor), Johan Verstraeten (Editor)
• Publisher: Catholic univ of america press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780813218595
• ISBN: 978-0-8132-1859-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cua Studies in Early Christian; Cua Studies in Early Christianity; Cua Studies in Early Christian
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works