Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Peter, 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Temas:
30-600
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Wealth > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Richesse > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church
Wealth > Religious aspects > Christianity
Christentum
Reichtum
Sozialgeschichte
Rome > History > Empire, 284-476.
Rome > Histoire > 284-476 (Bas-Empire)
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Weströmisches Reich
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Wealth, Christianity, and giving at the end of an ancient world
  • pt. 2. An age of affluence
  • pt. 3. An age of crisis
  • pt. 4. Aftermaths
  • pt. 5. Toward another world.
  • Aurea aetas: Wealth in an age of gold
  • Mediocritas: The social profile of the Latin Church, 312-ca. 370
  • Amor civicus: Love of the city: Wealth and its uses in an ancient world
  • "Treasure in heaven": Wealth in the Christian church
  • Symmachus: Being noble in fourth-century Rome
  • Avidus civicae gratiae: greedy for the good favor of the city: Symmachus and the people of Rome ; Ambrose and his people
  • "Avarice, the root of all evil": Ambrose and Northern Italy
  • Augustine: Spes saeculi: careerism, patronage, and religious bonding, 354-384
  • From Milan to Hippo: Augustine and the making of a religious community, 384-396
  • "The Life in Common of a kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic": Augustine on public and private in a monastic community
  • Ista vero saecularia: Those things, indeed, of the world: Ausonius, villas, and the language of wealth
  • Ex opulentissimo divite: From being rich as rich can be: Paulinus of Nola and the renunciation of wealth, 389-395
  • Commercium spirituale: The spiritual exchange: Paulinus of Nola and the poetry of wealth, 395-408
  • Propter magnificentiam urbis Romae: By reason of the magnificence of the city of Rome: The Roman rich and their clergy, from Constantine to Damasus, 312-384
  • "To Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land": Jerome in Rome, 382-385
  • Between Rome and Jerusalem: Women, patronage, and learning, 385-412
  • "The Eye of a Needle" and "The Treasure of the Soul": Renunciation, nobility, and the Sack of Rome, 405-413
  • Tolle divitem: Take away the rich: the Pelagian criticism of wealth
  • Augustine's Africa: People and church
  • "Dialogues with the Crowd": The rich, the people, and the city in the sermons of Augustine
  • Dimitte nobis debita nostra: Forgive us our sins: Augustine, wealth, and Pelagianism, 411-417
  • "Out of Africa": Wealth, power, and the churches, 415-430
  • "Still at that Time a More Affluent Empire": The crisis of the West in the fifth century
  • Among the saints: Marseilles, Arles, and Lérins, 400-440
  • Romana respublica vel iam mortua: With the empire now dead and gone: Salvian and his Gaul, 420-450
  • Ob Italiae securitatem: For the security of Italy: Rome and Italy, ca. 430-ca. 530
  • Patrimonia pauperum: Patrimonies of the poor: Wealth and conflict in the churches of the sixth century
  • Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator: Guardian of the faith, and always lover of (his) homeland: Wealth and piety in the sixth century.

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