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By Peter Brown

Peter Brown explores a innovative shift in puzzling over the destiny of the soul among 250 and 650 CE, displaying how own wealth within the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine about the afterlife to adapt from hypothesis to enterprise truth. This new courting to funds set the degree for the Church’s domination of medieval society.

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