Rabbinic Welfare

by Peter J. Leithart

Rabbinic instruction on almsgiving. Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2016

Atoning Alms

by Peter J. Leithart

On atoning almsgiving. Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2016

Heavenly Treasure

by Gary A. Anderson

The Ransom of the Soul: 
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
 by peter brown 
harvard, 288 pages, $24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares that he will “compare two ages—the world of the early church in the late second and third centuries and the early . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2015

Christian and Pagan Charity

by Peter J. Leithart

Pagans and Christian both gave alms, but early Christians modified the meaning of the practice. Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2015

Doing Righteousness

by Peter J. Leithart

Rabbinic Judaism on charitable giving to the poor. Continue Reading »

25 Jul 2014

This Sweetest Passage

by Peter J. Leithart

John Chrysostom considered Matthew 25 to be the central biblical text on almsgiving. Continue Reading »

18 Jun 2014