Matt’s Reviews > Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD > Status Update

"His humility was all the more stunning because it was based upon a conscious act of self-effacement on the part of the majestic God whom He continued to be. The splendor of God had dimmed itself in an awesome gesture of condescension. If in the late Roman soicla imagination, power and wealth were things that had to be asserted in order to exist, then no abjectio, no "stepping down", could be more stunning..."