Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Basil and Gregory's Sermons on Usury: A Simple Historiography
2 Usury in Greek and Roman Society
3 Usury in Jewish and Christian Scripture
4 Greek Theologians and Usury
5 Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa: Credit Where Credit is
Due
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University, where she teaches courses in the early and medieval history of Christianity and Islam, and Eastern Orthodox theology.
"Ihssen's patient study describes Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of
Nyssa's teachings on usury against the backdrop of the ancient
world, of biblical teaching, and of other Christian voices in late
antiquity. The result is a book that is both timely in its warnings
against economic injustice, and illuminating in its elucidation of
early Christian teachings on usury. Most importantly, Ihssen shows
that Nyssa's approach to usury has its own unique emphases."
Hans Boersma, Regent College
"Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen performs a real service, therefore, in
producing, in a very accessible form, an exhamination of the
Eastern Church's response to moneylending."
Dr. Selby, Church Times, 19 July 2013
"Ihssen is able to shed fascinating insight on Roman life and
illustrate the rich social justice theologies of the patristic
world."
Theological Book Review (tbr), Vol. 25, No.2, 2013
"As a work in patristics, Ihssen's monograph completes necessary
spadework about one aspect of the social teaching of two major
Eastern church thinkers. As a guide to social response for
Christians today, Ihssen makes a further down-payment on a valuable
and difficult project - to discover what sort of economy a
self-consciously Christian civilization barely free of the era of
the New Testament church did adopt or cerate once free of
persecution."
Timothy Patitsas, Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 65, No 2,
October 2014
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