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The ransom of the soul : afterlife and wealth in early western Christianity /

Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome's fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the church...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Peter, 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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