Unfinished Christians Laura Burns Arrogance and greed

Arrogance and greed

The book does not shy away from hot contemporary issues

a Civil War prison camp notorious then and now for its harsh conditions

'everyday person' narratives to ground the concepts

yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy

Unfinished Christians Laura Burns Arrogance and greedWhat can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They neither led a religious community nor did they live in entirely Christian settings. In this period, an age marked by "extraordinary" Christians wonderworking saints, household ascetics, hermits, monks,