PATRISTICS: texts and studies Vasily Ilyich Exemplary “The Teaching of the Ancient Church on Property and Alms” Text Publishing House Krasnodar, 2013 UDC 281.9 BBK 86.372 E 36 Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council Russian Orthodox Church IS 13-304-0347 The book was published with funds from the Ekaterinodar and Kuban diocese, as well as personal donations. The text of the book is printed according to the publication: The Teaching of the Ancient Church on Property and Alms. Kyiv, 1910. Preface: Somin N.V. Ekzemplyarsky, Vasily Ilyich.E 36 The teaching of the ancient Church on property and alms / V.I. Ekzemplyarsky. - Krasnodar: Text, 2013. - 272 pp. ISBN 978-5-903298-11-2 The book offered to the reader by Professor V.I. Ekzemplyarsky is truly unique. Ekzemplyarsky’s work is the only monograph in Russian theology entirely devoted to the issue of property and wealth from a patristic point of view. Its content is entirely based on the teachings of church writers and holy fathers of the 3rd-5th centuries: Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian of Carthage, Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Blessed. Augustine, blessed Jerome and others. A good half of the book’s text consists of extracts from Scripture or patristic tradition (about 300 quotations from the Bible and about 700 from the holy fathers). And on the basis of such extensive material, Ekzemplyarsky recreates the patristic teaching on property and alms, which is of astonishing heights. The Russian theologian convincingly shows that the basis of patristic teaching is mercy and love for one's neighbor. A small work by Archbishop is published in the Appendix. Vasily (Krivoshein), devoted to the same issue, considered on the basis of the works of St. Simeon the New Theologian. The book is intended for theologians, philosophers, historians and everyone interested in the fate of Orthodoxy.© Text Publishing House. © "Orthodox Ekaterinodar". © Somin N.V. - preface.ISBN 978-5-903298-11-2Original pdf - B8%D0%B5-%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9-%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%80%D0% BA%D0%B2%D0%B8-%D0%BE-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0% BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1% 8B%D0%BD%D0%B5