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The purpose of They Who Give from Evil is to consider the financial and salvific implications of usury on the community and the individual soul as it is addressed within the sermons of a selection of early Christian Greek authors, in the historical context of the fourth century Roman Empire. Although focusing on two Greek texts, St. Basil's Homily on Psalm Fourteen and Against Those Who Practice Usury by St. Gregory of Nyssa, Ihssen is able to shed fascinating insight on Roman life and illustrate the rich social justice theologies of the patristic world.

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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

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

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'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

"""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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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.

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