Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Approaching patristic socio-ethical texts: 1. Texts that create a future : the function of ancient texts for theology today / Reimund Bieringer
  • 2. Challenges in approaching patristic texts from the perspective of contemporary Catholic social teaching / Pauline Allen
  • pt. II. Contexts for patristic socio-ethical texts: 3. Social ethics and moral discourse in late antiquity / Peter Van Nuffelen
  • 4. Wealth, poverty, and eschatology : pre-Constantine Christian social thought and the hope for the world to come / Helen Rhee
  • 5. The audience(s) for patristic social teaching : a case study / Wendy Mayer
  • pt. III. Issues in patristic and Catholic social thought: 6. Out of the fitting room : rethinking patristic social texts on "the common good" / Susan R. Holman
  • 7. "That which has been wrung from tears" : usury, the Greek fathers, and Catholic social teaching / Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen
  • 8. The principle of detachment from private property in Basil of Caesarea's Homily 6 and its context / Brian Matz
  • 9. Social justice in Lactantius's Divine Institutes : an exploration / Thomas Hughson
  • pt. IV. Reflections on the theme: 10. The church fathers and Catholic social thought : reflections on the symposium / Richard Schenk
  • 11. The (im)possible dialogue between patristics and Catholic social thought : limits, possibilities, and a way forward / Johan Leemans, Johan Verstraeten.