Peter Brown Through the eye of a needle

wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

[Flaptekst] 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...

Engels | 759 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford | 2012

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