Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 2001336

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Walker Bynum Klappentext Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. He explores the "plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences," in order to understand human life after death. Zusammenfassung Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology! and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual.

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• Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum, Bynum Caroline Walker, Caroline Walker Bynum
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.1996
• EAN: 9780231081276
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08127-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: American Lectures on the Histo; American Lectures on the History of Religions; ACLS Lectures on the History of Religions; American Lectures on the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory