Heaven's Purge
Purgatory in Late Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 December 2010
- ISBN 9780199736041
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 156x234x19 mm
- Weight 630 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, 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 sixth-century bishop Gregory of Tours described how mixing water with dust from the tomb St. Martin would create a potion that would act as a ¨celestial purgative.¨ Indeed, Gregory could observe Christians being purged of sickness and sin all around him. By contrast, God's willingness to purge Christians of their sin after death was a more complicated proposition. As a process hidden from view, it raised questions: What was purgatory like? Who would experience it? Did purgatory purify souls, punish them, or both? And how painful would it be? This book explores purgatory's earliest history from the first century to the eighth. This was an era in which the idea that sinful Christians might improve their lot after death was often contentious, even heretical.
In this, the first study focused on purgatory's history in late antiquity, Moreira explores a wide variety of interests and influences at play in purgatory's early formation. Some of the influences discussed are 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 on the hereafter.
Finally, this study challenges the deeply ingrained supposition that purgatory was a symptom of barbarized Christianity. It 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. Highlighting the importance of the Anglo-Saxon contribution to purgatory, special attention is given to the writings of the last patristic author of antiquity, the Northumbrian monk, Bede.
...an interesting and thought-provoking book which has much to recommend it...informative and illuminating. Historians of late antiquity as well as historians of Christianity more generally willl find this a useful and stimulating volume.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Purgatory in Late Antiquity
Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought
Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife
O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine
Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question
Purgatory in Bede and Boniface
Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty
Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory
Conclusion
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