TY - BOOK AU - Brown, Peter AU - AU - TI - Through the Eye of a Needle SN - 9780691152905 U1 - 270.2 CY - U.S.A KW - Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca 30-600 KW - Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476 KW - Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History N2 - 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 UR - https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/7/27/71fgFxU8V3L.jpg ER -