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Environmental Theology and Material Scarcity in Early Irish Monasticism

Grace, Daniel J.

Early Irish monasticism is examined as a practical theology of material scarcity. Rather than treating environmental theology as a modern concern imposed upon medieval sources, this article identifies ecological and economic assumptions embedded within monastic rules, penitential discipline, hospitality, labour, property, food distribution,…

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The Theology of Mundane Matter in Late Antiquity: Church Property, Material Resources, and Everyday Economic Practice in the Early Christian World

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines the practical management of material resources in late-antique Christian communities. While histories of early Christianity often concentrate on councils, creeds, bishops, and theological controversies, churches also had to manage land, buildings, oil, wax, grain, clothing, liturgical objects, donations, charitable distributions,…

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