Rescue for the Dead : The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
ISBN-10
0195140990
ISBN-13
9780195140996
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2001
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.80 x 2.50 cms
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The Early ChurchChristian theologySociology: death & dying
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Examines how and why death came to be perceived as such a firm boundary of salvation. Analyzing exceptions to this principle from ancient Christianity, this book states that the principle itself was slow to develop and not universally accepted in the Christian movement's first four hundred years.
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.
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