Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 Ad Andend Natural and Applied Sciences)

Natural and Applied Sciences)

and the spiritual disciplines--proven paths to a fruitful life

Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity

noted scholar Adrian Poole demonstrates the age-old significance of our attempts to make sense of terrible suffering

ISBN13: 9780879076153

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 Ad Andend Natural and Applied Sciences)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 the waning days of the