This chapter focuses on a carefully selected body of representations from ancient Christian writers concerning both work and non-work (in the sense of inoperativity). Spanning almost four centuries (i.e, from Paul to Augustine), the chapter consists of two parts. The first brings together statements pertaining to six different strategies of legitimization and valorization of labor (doxic, analogical, apologetic, polemical, soteriological, apocalyptic). The second concentrates on the intrinsic limits and constraints imposed on the emergence of a Christian ideology of inoperativity.
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Chapter Title
Operosi e sabbatici. Lavoro e non-lavoro negli scrittori cristiani antichi
Authors
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.22
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919