Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov

Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society

Ed. Susan R. Holman

Grand Rapids (MI), Baker, 1 July 2008, 320 рр.

(Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History)

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Wealth and poverty are issues of perennial importance in the life and thought of the church. This volume, edited by Susan R. Holman, brings patristic thought to bear on these vital issues. The contributors offer explanations of poverty in the New Testament period, explore developments among Christians in Egypt and Asia Minor and in early Byzantium, and connect patristic theology with contemporary public policy and religious dialogue. The book also features a foreword by Archbishop Demetrios Trakatellis.
This volume launches the new series, Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History. The series is a partnership between Baker Academic and the Stephen
and Catherine Pappas Patristic Institute (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001ieGWDyXXDT8hyjrC7RhZ8KL9glJj5J9GF9a1MWx-kCV-gyEIu-YKUdkExDR8mOaCjh6EnCr6teQvQj_aB8Dwmgpos8_uuOLx8N9hj0AQ9Xy7ASAMyWy0hths9uVnCdZc) of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. The series is a deliberate outreach by the Orthodox community to Catholic and Protestant seminarians, pastors, and theologians. The next volume in the series, Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity, edited by Robert J. Daly, SJ, will be released in the spring of 2009.

Contributors to Wealth and Poverty include:
David Brakke, Rudolf Brändle, Denise Kimber Buell, Daniel Caner, Francine Cardman, Demetrios J. Constantelos, Steven J. Friesen, Görge K. Hasselhoff, Susan R. Holman, Angeliki E. Laiou, Brian Matz, Wendy Mayer, Edward Moore, Timothy Patitsas, Adam
Serfass, A. Edward Siecienski, Annewies van den Hoek, Efthalia Makris Walsh.

The Holy Cross Studies series editorial board consists of Bruce N. Beck (Pappas Patristic Institute), Francois Bovon (Harvard Divinity School), Robert J. Daly, SJ (Boston College), Susan R. Holman (PovertyStudies.org), Demetrios S. Katos (Hellenic College), Aristotle Papanikolaou (Fordham University), and James Skedros (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox
School of Theology)

View the table of
contents and read Archbishop Demetrios’s foreword
and Holman’s preface. (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001ieGWDyXXDT_MrKpMX3_bI96nja-wUYcEbHmo_XJ4GqdjrSzLF4q8imRMMfPeS2mjQClRjWMpYTQ7jaRGJ7yVhkU_B-SrHeVheGELdpKBM2O79G-pBTTga4AoQMtDoNTyGNSDFiQcH5fVJoq1ISD9Hujs5ibAwL-mzewRzwYH5XkuzS9g_B68tCytIr8VhgBV)

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University) says, “this is a splendid book, a substantial contribution on a topic of perennial import for scholars of religion and theology. The essays collected here offer important reassessments of scholarship to date. They present fresh, vivid material and provide revised models through which to study, reflect upon, and respond to deprivation and surplus as realities in antiquity and in our own time. Practical, pragmatic considerations are interwoven with cultural, historical, and theological analyses. Excellent work throughout!”