Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

Name: Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
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ISBN: 9780691161778

ISBN-10: 0691161771

ISBN-13: 9780691161778

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter Brown

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Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 808
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.442