The renunciation of wealth as a rite of 'the poor' and 'perfect': Bede and his successors
The renunciation and abandonment of wealth are rarely described as Christian rites of passage. Yet, for many medieval commentators on Scripture, such as the Venerable Bede and his successors, they were necessary rites, preliminaries to entry into the kingdom of heaven and into the class of ‘the perf...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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