The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul: Papers Read at the 2007 Summer Meeting and the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Studies in Church History, v. 45)

by Peter Clarke and Professor Tony Claydon

Peter Clarke (Editor), Tony Claydon (Editor), Adrian Chastain Weimer, Alexander O'Hara, Andrew Cambers, Andrew Finch, Catherine Rider, Conor Kostick, David Bagchi, David Goodhew, Elena Martin, Frances Young, Frans Ciappara, Georgina Byrne, Jamie Wood, Josephine Laffin, Laura Sangha, Leslie Brubaker, Martin Spence, Matthew Joseph dal Santo, Michael Snape, P.A. Booth, Paul Gifford, Paul Rule, Robert N Swanson, Rowan Strong, Salvador Ryan, Sarah Foot, Sasha Handley, and Yannis Papadogiannakis

The impact of belief in the afterlife on the Church's history and evolution, and the manifold ways in which it has impacted on and been reflected in the lives, expectations, and aspirations of Christians across the centuries, is the central theme of this volume. By considering the whole chronological and geographic spread of the church's experience, these essays demonstrate the current excitement of scholarly study of the afterlife: and they frequentlyquestion such deeply held assumptions as the late development of purgatory in Christian thought, the divorce between the living and the dead in the western tradition after the sixteenth century, or the importance of post-death salvation in successful modern evangelism. PETER CLARKE is Lecturer in History at Southampton University; TONY CLAYDON is Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University.

• ISBN10: 0954680952
• ISBN13: 9780954680954
• Publish Date: 21 May 2009
• Publish Status: Inactive
• Out of Print: 23 June 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Ecclesiastical History Society
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 454
• Language: English