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Old 12-30-2007, 03:35 PM
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The book WAS a reaction against another book was it not? Therefore it was not primarily written as a positive treatment on the subject of how to help the poor, but to primarily correct a false theological view - i.e. a reaction. Reactions NEVER show the full story.
Well, you really don't know what Chilton's book intended to convey without reading it, so perhaps it would have been best to say nothing about what its content was or was not...
As someone who has read neither book, I agree.
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