Wealth and Poverty in the Early Church

Interpretation 41 (4):368-381 (1987)
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The early church did not provide us with any normative statement on wealth and poverty, but it did give us clear witness to the hazards of wealth and to the abiding necessity of alms for the poor

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10.1177/002096438704100405

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