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

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Death  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (LCSH)

Church history  -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. (LCSH)

Målgrupp

Specialized.

Klassifikation

BT825 (LCC)

236.109 (DDC)

Ceaf (kssb/8 (machine generated))