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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459350903321

Autore

Davies Douglas James

Titolo

The theology of death [[electronic resource] /] / Douglas J. Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, 2008

ISBN

1-282-86824-1

9786612868245

0-567-34647-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

236/.1

Soggetti

Death - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpse, Coffin and Cross; 3. Baptism and Marriage; 4. Liturgies, Life and Death; 5. Heaven and Hell; 6. Longings; 7. Grave, Grove and Rapture; 8. Cremation, Burial and Change; 9. Life-Death Balance; 10. To Live and Live again; Bibliography; Index; Biblical References

Sommario/riassunto

The first part of the book is grounded in biblical issues and in historical and philosophical theology. It seeks to establish several schemes of death theology related, for example, to early Christianity's Jewish cultural milieu, to belief in Christ's resurrection and to Christology, to issues of millennial belief and to an emergent liturgical practice. The rise of notions of the soul in relation to medieval thought and practice and the place of death in reformation theology are both covered, as is the role of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Finally the rise of biblical theology is consi