The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
by Brown
Explores how early Christian ideas about the afterlife influenced attitudes toward wealth, charity, and inheritance in late antiquity.
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This book examines the development of Christian beliefs about the afterlife and their influence on economic and social practices in late antiquity.
It considers how concepts of the soul and salvation affected the use of wealth, charity, and inheritance in early Western Christianity.
The study draws on historical sources to trace changing attitudes toward money and the afterlife from the fourth to the sixth centuries.
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