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The Ransom of the Soul

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By Peter Brown

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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.Early Christian doctrine held that the living and the dead, as equally sinful beings, needed each...Show more

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9780674967588

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Harvard University Press

Published year

2015

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The Ransom of the Soul

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Hardcover

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