RANSOM OF THE SOUL

RANSOM OF THE SOULAfterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how personal wealth in the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine concerning the afterlife to evolve from speculation to firm reality. This new relationship to money set the stage for the Church's domination of medieval society.

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A Biblical Theology of Redemption

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In our wider culture it's now tucked in the endnotes of book-club histories or forms the ghostlike ellipses in the six o'clock news

all that comes to pass actually serves to advance it

Osborne shows us that in a world that centered on the divinity of the emperor and the demands to participate in the worship of the gods

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Written for first-year and second-year Hebrew students

Enderlein provide an extensive introduction to the issues informing this important debate

making the complex surprisingly simple and accessible to every reader

bestselling author Nancy Pearcey goes beyond politically correct slogans with a riveting exposé of the dehumanizing worldview that shapes current watershed moral issues