Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Brown, Peter - 2012

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Princeton University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x2x9. 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 Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven.Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh… Read More

Good+ 757 pp. Numerous Illus. NOT a library book and would be "Very Good" NO Jacket chips BUT a lot of underlines throughout. Amazing journey through the fall of Rome in the Late Classical Early Medieval era in the time of the historian John Morris would have been called "The Age of Arthur"' though he is not the focus but the times that brought him about. Huge book Three Geese in Flight since 1977 Five star Customer service