Charity: the place of the poor in the Biblical tradition
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New Haven
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Yale University Press
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Gary A. Anderson
CONTENTS NOTE
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The challenge of charity -- Charity as an expression of faith in God -- Charity as service to God -- A loan to God -- Material wealth and its deceptions -- Deliverance from death -- Is charity always rewarded? -- Charity and the goodness of creation -- Charitable deeds as storable commodities -- Can merits be transferred? -- Storing good works in heaven -- Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving -- Sacrificial giving -- Deliverance from purgatory -- Your alms are a memorial