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Rescue for the Dead

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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.

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ISBN: 9780195140996
Publication date: 18th October 2001
Author: Jeffrey A Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St Michaels Colleg Trumbower
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 222 pages
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
Genres: Christianity
History of religion
Theology
Sociology: death and dying