The Ransom of the Soul. Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity.  -  P. Brown

Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

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?This book is about Christian attitudes toward the religious use of wealth within the context of interaction between the living and the dead between the time of Tertullian (ca. 160-240) and Julian of Toledo (late seventh century). The result is a stimulating, evocative, though sometimes impressionistic, study of the ways that late antique and early medieval Christians deployed their wealth through charitable giving for the benefit of their own souls and the souls of their loved ones, living and deceased. Th...
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2018 Uitgever: Harvard University Press 288 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674983971 ISBN-13: 9780674983977