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Title

The church, the afterlife and the fate of the soul : papers read at the 2007 Summer Meeting and the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon.

Author

Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (2007)

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Clarke, Peter D.
• Claydon, Tony.
• Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting (2008)

Description

xxiii, 429 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The impact of belief in the afterlife on the Church's history & evolution, & the manifold ways in which it had impacted on & been reflected in the lives, expectations, & aspirations of Christians across the centuries, is the central theme of this volume.

Series Statement

Studies in church history, 0424-2084 ; 45

Uniform Title

Studies in church history ; 45.

Subjects

• Soul
• Vida futura > Historia de las doctrinas > Congresos y asambleas
• Jüngstes Gericht
• Future life > Christianity > History of doctrines > Congresses
• Afterlife
• Geistesgeschichte
• Ewiges Leben
• Jenseits
• Fegefeuer
• Church history > Congresses
• Eschatologie
• Ecclesiastical history
• Tod

Note

• The papers in this volume comprise the eight plenary papers delivered at the 2007 Summer Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society and the Winter Meeting in 2008 along with a selection of the communications offered at the Summer Meeting (p. ix).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Naked or clothed? : eschatology and the doctrine of creation / Frances Young -- What happened to the last judgement in the early church? / Josephine Laffin -- Timor mortis : the fear of death in Augustine's sermons on the martyrs / Elena Martin -- Philosophy, hagiology and the early Byzantine origins of purgatory / Matthew J. Dal Santo -- Saints and soteriology in Sophronius Sophista's Miracles of Cyrus and John / Phil Booth -- Death and the afterlife in Jonas of Bobbio's Vita Columbani / Alexander O'Hara -- Individual and collective salvation in late Visigothic Spain / Jamie Wood -- Anglo-Saxon 'purgatory' / Sarah Foot -- Byzantine visions of the end / Leslie Brubaker -- The afterlife of Bishop Adhémar of Le Puy / Conor Kostick -- Michael Glykas and the afterlife in twelfth-century Byzantium / Yannis Papadogiannakis -- Ghosts and ghostbusters in the Middle Ages / R.N. Swanson -- Agreements to return from the afterlife in late medieval exempla / Catherine Rider -- Fixing the eschatological scales : judgement of the soul in late medieval and early modern Irish tradition / Salvador Ryan -- 'An afterlife in memory' : commemoration and its effects in a late medieval parish / Clive Burgess -- Performing the passion : strategies for salvation in the life of Stefana Quinzani (d. 1530) / Cordelia Warr -- Christ's descent into hell in Reformation controversy / David Bagchi -- Revelation and reckoning : angels and the apocalypse in Reformation England, c. 1559-1625 / Laura Sangha -- Heaven and heavenly piety in Colonial American elegies / Adrian Chastain Weimer -- 'But where shall my soul repose?' : nonconformity, science and the geography of the afterlife, c. 1660-1720 / Andrew Cambers -- The Chinese rites controversy : Confucian and Christian views on the afterlife / Paul Rule -- Strategies for the afterlife in eighteenth-century Malta / Frans Ciappara -- Apparitions and Anglicanism in 1750s Warwickshire / Sasha Handley -- Rescuing the perishing heathen : the British Empire versus the Empire of Satan in Anglican theology, 1701-1721 / Rowan Strong -- 'In their madness they chase the wind' : the Catholic Church and the afterlife in late Chošon Korea / Andrew Finch -- The 'restitution of all things' in evangelical premillennialism / Martin Spence -- 'Angels seen today' : the theology of modern spiritualism and its impact on Church of England clergy, 1852-1939 / Georgina Byrne -- Civilians, soldiers and perceptions of the afterlife in Britain during the First World War / Michael Snape -- Life beyond the grave : new churches in York and the afterlife, c. 1982-2007 / David Goodhew -- African Christianity and the eclipse of the afterlife / Paul Gifford.

Call Number

JFD 12-5105

ISBN

• 9780954680954 (hbk.)
• 0954680952 (hbk.)

OCLC

251183797

Author

Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (2007)

Title

The church, the afterlife and the fate of the soul : papers read at the 2007 Summer Meeting and the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society / edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon.

Imprint

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2009.

Series

Studies in church history, 0424-2084 ; 45

Studies in church history ; 45.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

Geistesgeschichte

Indexed Term

Ecclesiastical history

Afterlife

Soul

Added Author

Clarke, Peter D.

Claydon, Tony.

Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting (2008)

Other Form:

Online version: Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting (2007) Church, the afterlife and the fate of the soul. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2009 (OCoLC)705798876

Research Call Number

JFD 12-5105