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"The present volume collects the proceedings of the international colloquium "Lessico, argomentazioni e strutture retoriche nella polemica di età cristiana (III-V sec.)", held in Lecce (Italy) 9-10 April 2010. Papers are organized in three parts: 'I. Temi e aspetti della polemica religiosa'; 'II. Lessico e strutture retoriche del discorso polemico'; 'III. Religione e retorica: sviluppi successivi'. The first one brings together papers which examine the contents of some polemics in the patristic age; the second one privileges the rhetorical and lexical approach to the polemical texts; the third one is a kind of incursion in a field which, only at first sight, appears to be far from the core of the volume. All studies have the aim to approach the themes and the forms of the polemic and therefore to highlight the features related to "sapientia" and "eloquentia", in the words of Augustine, features which play a leading role in the intra-ecclesial and extra-ecclesial polemical debate with heathens and Jews".

Christian church history --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 400-499 --- anno 300-399 --- anno 200-299 --- Rhetoric --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Polemical debates --- Congresses --- Congresses. --- Rhetoric - Religious aspects - Christianity - To 1500 - Congresses --- Rhetoric, Ancient - Congresses --- Polémique

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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 of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity. Peter Brown examines the rise of the church through the lens of money and the challenges it posed to an institution that espoused the virtue of poverty and called avarice the root of all evil. Drawing on the writings of major Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome, Brown examines the controversies and changing attitudes toward money caused by the influx of new wealth into church coffers, and describes the spectacular acts of divestment by rich donors and their growing influence in an empire beset with crisis. He shows how the use of wealth for the care of the poor competed with older forms of philanthropy deeply rooted in the Roman world, and sheds light on the ordinary people who gave away their money in hopes of treasure in heaven. Through the Eye of a Needle challenges the widely held notion that Christianity's growing wealth sapped Rome of its ability to resist the barbarian invasions, and offers a fresh perspective on the social history of the church in late antiquity.

Church history --- Wealth --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Rome --- History. --- Ancient history --- Christian church history --- anno 300-399 --- anno 500-599 --- anno 400-499 --- -Wealth --- -27 "03/04" --- 937.08 --- 276:241 --- 937.08 Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) --- Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- -Christianity --- -History. --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/04" --- Patrologie. Patristiek-:-Moraaltheologie. Theologische ethiek --- -Ancient history --- -Church history --- Eglise --- Richesse --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Europe --- 27 "03/04" --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity&delete& --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Wealth - Religious aspects - Christianity - History --- Rome - History - Empire, 284-476