Through the Eye of the Needle: Wealth, the Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the Formation of the Christian Church, 350-550 (2 Volumes in Total)

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In Through the Eye of a Needle, Peter Brown, a founder of the field of late antiquity, examines the rise of the church through the lens of wealth and the challenges it posed to a system that extolled the virtues of poverty and called greed the root of all evil. Brown examines the controversies caused by the influx of new wealth into the church and changing attitudes toward wealth, drawing on the perspectives of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine; describes the growing influence of wealthy donors in a crisis-ridden empire; shows the competition between using wealth to care for the poor and old-style Roman charity; and presents ordinary people who gave money to obtain heavenly treasures.

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