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What early Christian communities tell us about giving financial aid at a time of crises

  • Written by Cavan W. Concannon, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
What early Christian communities tell us about giving financial aid at a time of crisesApostle Paul and his followers collected aid, likely for early Christians.Giovanni Paolo Panini /Hermitage Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Sometime in the late second century A.D., Christians in the city of Rome organized a collection to send to the followers of Jesus in the city of Corinth.

Modern-day scholars don’t know what the crisis was...

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