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

by Peter R.L. Brown and Peter Brown

Book Overview

A sweeping intellectual history of the role of wealth in the church in the last days of the Roman Empire

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691161771
• ISBN13: 9780691161778
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 808 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"