Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA September 27, 2001
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0195140990
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195140996
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated post-mortem bliss for the faithful and non-salvation for others. Here, Trumbower looks at 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.
About The Author
Jeffrey A. Trumbower is at St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT.
Reader ReviewsAn excellent, and unbiased, scholarly review of some practices in ancient Christianity. Though considered unorthodox in our day, Jeffery Trumbower puts all preconception aside and looks at the means that some early Christians used to save the unsaved dead. Whether by prayer, or actual proxy baptism, he shows that the thought, at least, was there.
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