دانلود کتاب Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

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Contents\nMaps\nIllustration\nPreface\nPart I. Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World\nChapter 1. Aurea aetas: Wealth in an Age of Gold\nChapter 2. Mediocritas\nChapter 3. Amor civicus: Love of the city\nChapter 4. “Treasure in Heaven”\nPart II. An Age of Affluence\nChapter 5. Symmachus\nChapter 6. Avidus civicae gratiae: Greedy for the good favor of the City\nChapter 7. Ambrose and His People\nChapter 8. “Avarice, the Root of All Evil”\nChapter 9. Augustine\nChapter 10. From Milan to Hippo\nChapter 11. “The Life in Common of a Kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic”\nChapter 12. Ista vero saecularia: Those things, indeed, of the world\nChapter 13. Ex opulentissimo divite: From being rich as rich can be\nChapter 14. Commercium spiritale: The spiritual exchange\nChapter 15. Propter magnificentiam urbis Romae: By reason of the magnificence of the city of Rome\nChapter 16. “To Sing The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land”\nChapter 17. Between Rome and Jerusalem\nPart III. An Age of Crisis\nChapter 18. “The Eye of a Needle” and “The Treasure of the Soul”\nChapter 19. Tolle divitem: Take away the rich\nChapter 20. Augustine’s Africa\nChapter 21. “Dialogues with the Crowd”\nChapter 22. Dimitte nobis debita nostra: Forgive us our sins\nChapter 23. “Out of Africa”\nChapter 24. “Still at That Time a More Affluent Empire”\nPart IV. Aftermaths\nChapter 25. Among the Saints\nChapter 26. Romana respublica vel iam mortua: With the empire now dead and gone\nChapter 27. Ob Italiae securitatem: For the security of Italy\nPart V. Toward Another World\nChapter 28. Patrimonia pauperum: Patrimonies of the poor\nChapter 29. Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator: Guardian of the faith, and always lover of [his] homeland\nConclusion\nAbbreviation\nNotes\nWorks Cited\nIndex