Ellen Muehlberger

Moment of Reckoning

Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190459161
• ISBN-10: 0190459166
• Artikelnr.: 54146616

Autorenporträt

Ellen Muehlberger is Associate Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History at the University of Michigan. During the research for this book, she held of the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (2014-15) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2016-17).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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