TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hengel,Martin
TI  - Property and riches in the early church: aspects of a social history of early Christianity 
SN  - 0334013291
AV  - BR166 .H4513 1974
U1  - 261.8/5 
PY  - 1974///
CY  - London., Philadelphia.
PB  - SCM Press Ltd., Fortress Press.
KW  - Property
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Christian sociology
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - eiendom
KW  - rikdom
KW  - urkirken
N1  - Translation of: Eigentum und Reichtum in der frühen Kirche; Includes bibliographical references; The criticism of property among the fathers, natural law and utopia in antiquity. The criticism of property among the fourth-century fathers ; Natural law and utopia in antiquity ; Greek influence in early Christianity? -- Property and riches in the Old Testament and Judaism. The prophetic criticism of riches and its expression in the Torah ; Social tensions in early Judaism ; Poverty and riches in the rabbis -- The preaching of Jesus. Jesus' radical criticism of property ; Jesus' free attitude to property ; The imminence of the rule of God and the love of the Father -- The 'love communism' of the primitive community -- Paul and the communities of the Gentile Christian mission. The new situation ; The social structure of the Gentile Christian communities ;
ER  -