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

"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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