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Rescue for the Dead

By Trumbower, Jeffrey A.

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Rescue for the Dead

By Trumbower, Jeffrey A.

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Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated some type of post-mortem bliss. This belief in salvation for the faithful has usually meant non-salvation for others. The Christian imagination in the West has usually drawn a sharp boundary at death, on the principle that, if someone did not join up with the saved community during this life, joining it after death would be impossible. In this book, Jeffrey Trumbower examines how and why death came to be perceived as such a firm boundary of salvation. Analyzing exceptions to this principle from ancient Christianity, he finds that the principle itself was slow to develop and not universally accepted in the Christian movement's first four hundred years. In fact, only in the West was this principle definitively articulated, due in large part to the work and influence of Augustine.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2001-09-27
Publication Date:
2001-09-27
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195140990
ISBN13:
9780195140996
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
521 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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