| Phụ đề | : | Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD |
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| Tác giả | : | Brown, Peter |
| Nơi xuất bản | : | U.S.A: Princeton University, 2012 |
| Thông tin trách nhiệm | : | Peter Brown |
| Mô tả vật lý | : | xxx, 759pgs. hardcover, illustrations 24cm |
| Tóm tắt/ chú giải | : | 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 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 perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity. |
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| Ngôn ngữ | : | 0 eng |
| DDC | : | 270.2 / B877-P48 |
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Sách cùng tác giả
Society and The Holy in Late Antiquity
U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1982
The Cult of the Saints
U.S.A.: The University of Chicago Press, 1981
Sách cùng khung phân loại
Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity
U.S.A.: Cambriged University Press, 2008
Christianity and Paganism in The Fourth to Eighth Centuries
U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1997
Society and The Holy in Late Antiquity
U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1982
The Cult of the Saints
U.S.A.: The University of Chicago Press, 1981
