Download PDF: Sessions, Beyond Religious Giving Practical Matters is proud to publish Issue 10: Wealth, Poverty, and Practice. Our hope, birthed nearly two years ago, was to bring together scholars and practitioners to critically reflect on the intersection of money,
Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity
Download PDF: RV Garrison, Alms By David J. Downs Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016. 340 pages. $59.95 The idea of atoning or redemptive almsgiving is that the act of giving alms or doing work for charity merits the forgiveness of sins.