Heaven's Purge
Purgatory in Late Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 May 2014
- ISBN 9780199375011
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 233x157x19 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Heaven's Purge traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, Isabel Moreira challenges the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities, and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.
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The doctrine of purgatory - the state after death in which Christians undergo punishment by God for unforgiven sins - raises many questions. What is purgatory like? Who experiences it? Does purgatory purify souls, or punish them, or both? How painful is it? Heaven's Purge explores the first posing of these questions in Christianity's early history, from the first century to the eighth: an era in which the notion that sinful Christians might improve their lot after death was contentious, or even heretical.
Isabel Moreira discusses a wide range of influences at play in purgatory's early formation, including ideas about punishment and correction in the Roman world, slavery, the value of medical purges at the shrines of saints, and the authority of visions of the afterlife for informing Christians of the hereafter. She also challenges the deeply ingrained supposition that belief in purgatory was a symptom of barbarized Christianity, and assesses the extent to which Irish and Germanic views of society, and the sources associated with them - penitentials and legal tariffs - played a role in purgatory's formation. Special attention is given to the writings of the last patristic author of antiquity, the Northumbrian monk Bede.
Heaven's Purge is the first study to focus on purgatory's history in late antiquity, challenging the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.
A book that is thoughtful, learned, and refreshingly independent-minded. She Moreira avoids the conventional explanations that have been advance by scholars since the Reformation... remarkable.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Purgatory in Late Antiquity
Chapter One. Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought
Chapter Two. Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife
Chapter Three. O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine
Chapter Four. Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Chapter Five. Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question
Chapter Six. Purgatory in Bede and Boniface
Chapter Seven. Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty
Chapter Eight. Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory
Conclusion
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