Patristic Christian Views on Poverty and Hunger
June 2010: Voluntary Poverty in the Economy of the Spirit (Volume 10 Issue 6)
[1] The poor are “living images of God,” wrote Martin Luther in 1522, an opinion shared by Ulrich Zwingli, who argued that God “turned all visible cults from himself to the poor.”1 Both reformers knew Johannes Oecolampadius (a co-signatory at Marburg in 1529), whose treatises on poor relief began with his 1519 translation of Gregory […]