Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
Brown, Peter (1935-2016)
Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Peter Brown - U.S.A Princeton University 2012 - 759tr. hardcover, illustrations 24cm
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.
9780691152905
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476
Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
270.2 / B877-P48
Through the Eye of a Needle Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Peter Brown - U.S.A Princeton University 2012 - 759tr. hardcover, illustrations 24cm
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.
9780691152905
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476
Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
270.2 / B877-P48