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Download or read book Heaven's Purge written by Isabel Moreira and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Heaven's Purge written by Isabel Moreira and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The War in Heaven by : Stella Purce Revard
Download or read book The War in Heaven written by Stella Purce Revard and published by Ithaca, N. Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Purge written by Sofi Oksanen and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novel of two women dogged by secrets buried in Estonia’s shameful Soviet past—“[A] bold combination of history, politics, and suspense” (The Sunday Times). When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide’s home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex plot of suspicion and revelation as they attempt to discover each other’s motives. As their stories come to light, they reveal a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out during the worst years of Estonia’s Soviet occupation. “A stirring and humane work of art” by the acclaimed Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen, Purge won numerous awards including the Finlandia Prize and the Prix Femina (The New Republic). “A stunner.” —The Plain Dealer “[A] taut, well-crafted tale of Europe’s still living post-war pain.” —Booklist “A dark, harrowing, and at times difficult read that wrings every ounce of emotion from the reader.” —The Bookseller
Book Synopsis Chimes from Heaven's Belfry by : G. Hunt Jackson
Download or read book Chimes from Heaven's Belfry written by G. Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steps unto Heaven by : John Richardson
Download or read book Steps unto Heaven written by John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Case for Heaven by : Lee Strobel
Download or read book The Case for Heaven written by Lee Strobel and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling and award-winning author Lee Strobel interviews experts about the evidence for the afterlife and offers credible answers to the most provocative questions about what happens when we die, near-death experiences, heaven, and hell. We all want to know what awaits us on the other side of death, but is there any reliable evidence that there is life after death? Investigative author Lee Strobel offers a lively and compelling study into one of the most provocative topics of our day. Through fascinating conversations with respected scholars and experts--a neuroscientist from Cambridge University, a researcher who analyzed a thousand accounts of near-death experiences, and an atheist-turned-Christian-philosopher--Strobel offers compelling reasons for why death is not the end of our existence but a transition to an exciting world to come. Looking at biblical accounts, Strobel unfolds what awaits us after we take our last breath and answers questions like: Is there an afterlife? What is heaven like? How will we spend our time there? And what does it mean to see God face to face? With a balanced approach, Strobel examines the alternative of Hell and the logic of damnation, and gives a careful look at reincarnation, universalism, the exclusivity claims of Christ, and other issues related to the topic of life after death. With vulnerability, Strobel shares the experience of how he nearly died years ago and how the reality of death can shape our lives and faith. Follow Strobel on this journey of discovery of the entirely credible, believable, and exhilarating life to come.
Download or read book Heaven Opened written by Richard Alleine and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heavenly Arcana Disclosed which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the Lord by : Emanuel Swedenborg
Download or read book The Heavenly Arcana Disclosed which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the Lord written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Theological Works: The heavenly arcana disclosed ... which are in Genesis ([v. 1-11]) [and] in Exodus ([v. 12-19]) by : Emanuel Swedenborg
Download or read book Theological Works: The heavenly arcana disclosed ... which are in Genesis ([v. 1-11]) [and] in Exodus ([v. 12-19]) written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The De Dono Perseverantiae of Saint Augustine by : Mary Alphonsine Lesousky
Download or read book The De Dono Perseverantiae of Saint Augustine written by Mary Alphonsine Lesousky and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Representative Sonnets by American Poets by : Charles Henry Crandall
Download or read book Representative Sonnets by American Poets written by Charles Henry Crandall and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond the Stars by : Archibald McCullagh
Download or read book Beyond the Stars written by Archibald McCullagh and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God's Method with Man, Or, Sacred Scenes Along the Path to Heaven by : Barlow Weed Gorham
Download or read book God's Method with Man, Or, Sacred Scenes Along the Path to Heaven written by Barlow Weed Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scofield Reference Bible by : Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
Download or read book The Scofield Reference Bible written by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perfected for Ever; Or, Flowers of Earth Transplanted to Heaven. Thoughts in Verse and Prose, Selected from Various Authors ... by : Estelle E. M. Sheppard
Download or read book Perfected for Ever; Or, Flowers of Earth Transplanted to Heaven. Thoughts in Verse and Prose, Selected from Various Authors ... written by Estelle E. M. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Blissful Bowers; Or, The Mansions in Heaven, a Poem ... by : James Moore
Download or read book Blissful Bowers; Or, The Mansions in Heaven, a Poem ... written by James Moore and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: