Moment of Reckoning
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Moment of Reckoning
Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity
Muehlberger, Ellen (Associate Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History, University of Michigan)
Oxford University Press Inc
04/2019
264
Dura
Inglês
9780190459161
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In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces this early tradition of imagining the experience of dying and points to its consequences in later Christian thought.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Toward Death in Late Ancient Christianity Chapter One: The Truth to Be Found in Death: Early Fourth-Century Histories Chapter Two: Creating the Experience of Death in Late Ancient Sermons Chapter Three: Training for Death: Rhetorical Formation and the Cast of the Early Christian Imagination Chapter Four: What Remains? Situating the Postmortal Chapter Five: Considering Compulsion in Late Ancient Christianity Conclusion: Claiming the Future Bibliography
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In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces this early tradition of imagining the experience of dying and points to its consequences in later Christian thought.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Toward Death in Late Ancient Christianity Chapter One: The Truth to Be Found in Death: Early Fourth-Century Histories Chapter Two: Creating the Experience of Death in Late Ancient Sermons Chapter Three: Training for Death: Rhetorical Formation and the Cast of the Early Christian Imagination Chapter Four: What Remains? Situating the Postmortal Chapter Five: Considering Compulsion in Late Ancient Christianity Conclusion: Claiming the Future Bibliography
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