Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Approaching Patristic Socio-Ethical Texts
1. Texts That Create a Future: The Function of Ancient Texts for Theology Today
2. Challenges in Approaching Patristic Texts from the Perspective of Contemporary Catholic Social Teaching
Part II: Contexts for Patristic Socio-Ethical Texts
3. Social Ethics and Moral Discourse in Late Antiquity
4. Wealth, Poverty, and Eschatology: Pre-Constantine Christian Social Though tand the Hope for the World to Come
5. The Audience(s) for Patristic Social Teaching: A Case Study
Part III: Issues in Patristic and Catholic Social Thought
6. Out of the Fitting Room: Rethinking Patristic Social Texts on“The Common Good”
7. “That which has been wrung from tears”: Usury, the Greek Fathers, and Catholic Social Teaching
8. The Principle of Detachment from Private Property in Basil of Caesarea’s Homily 6 and Its Context
9. Social Justice in Lactantius’s Divine Institutes: An Exploration
Part IV: Reflections on the Theme
10. The Church Fathers and Catholic Social Thought: Reflections on the Symposium
11. The (Im)possible Dialogue between Patristics and Catholic Social Thought: Limits, Possibilities, and a Way Forward
Contributors
Bibliography
Index