The ransom of the soul afterlife and wealth in early western christianity
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Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how personal wealth in the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine concerning the afterlife to evolve from speculation to firm reality. This new relationship to money set the stage for the Church's domination of medieval society.
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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’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West.
“[An] extraordinary new book…Prodigiously original—an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential…Peter Brown’s subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity.”
—G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books
“Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century…Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money.
—A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 juni 2018
Aantal pagina's: 288
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Peter Brown
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 146 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 222 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 138 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 266 g
EAN: 9780674983977