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Moment of reckoning : imagined death and its consequences in late ancient Christianity / Ellen Muehlberger

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Muehlberger, Ellen
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Truth to Be Found in Death: Early Fourth-Century Histories -- 2.Creating the Experience of Death in Late Ancient Sermons -- 3.Training for Death: Rhetorical Formation and the Cast of the Early Christian Imagination -- 4.What Remains? Situating the Postmortal -- 5.Considering Compulsion in Late Ancient Christianity.
Summary
Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying-not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge's court but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. 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 text traces how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one's actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment.
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9780190459185 (ebook)
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Specialized.
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Previously issued in print: 2019.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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