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mods: Poverty in the Early Church and Today a Conversation Walton, Steve. creator Swithinbank, Hannah. text Electronic books. enk London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2019 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (259 pages) This innovative volume focuses on the significance of early Christianity for modern means of addressing poverty, by offering a rigorous study of deprivation and its alleviation in both earliest Christianity and today's world. The contributors seek to present the complex ways in which early Christian ideas and practices relate to modern ideas and practices, and vice versa. In this light, the book covers seven major areas of poverty and its causes, benefaction, patronage, donation, wealth and dehumanization, `the undeserving poor', and responsibility. Each area features an expert in early Christianity in its Jewish and Graeco-Roman settings, paired with an expert in modern strategies for addressing poverty and benefaction; each author engages with the same topic from their respective area of expertise, and responds to their partner's essay. Giving careful attention toboth the continuities and discontinuities between the ancient world and today, the contributors seek to inform and engage church leaders, those working in NGOs concerned with poverty, and all interested in these crucial issues, both Christian and not. Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; How This Book. Works; Reflecting on Poverty; Foreword; Abbreviations; Contributors; Part One Poverty Then and Now; 1 Two Concepts of Poverty: A Theological Analysis; Individual versus relational concepts of poverty; Oakes's deprivation concept of poverty; Individual versus relational poverty in international development; Green's relational definition of the poor in Luke; Green's versus Oakes's definitions of poverty; The corporate image of God; 2 Poverty and Its Causes in the Early Church; Introduction; Definitions of poverty Economic models and theories of the ancient Roman economyEumachia's business…