Of Widows and Meals <subTitle>Communal meals in the book of Acts</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Finger, Reta Halteman</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1940-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">2:4</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher> <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>326tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Though ""community"" has become a common word in the contemporary Western church, the practice of communal sharing has effectively fallen by the wayside. Unfortunately, it is often the poor who are left wanting because we no longer come together. Reta Halteman Finger finds a solution to this modern problem by learning from the ancient Mediterranean Christian culture of community.... ""Of Widows and Meals"" begins a discussion of need in community that can revolutionize the contemporary church's interaction with the world at large.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Reta Halteman Finger</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Acts -- Criticism</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Dinners and dining in the Bible</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Church history Primitive and early church</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">226.6067</classification> <classification authority="ddc">R437-F50</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802830531</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11538/37.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11538/37.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071028.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>