The fate of the dead in early third century North African Christianity : the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian / Eliezer Gonzalez.
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TextSeries: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 83.Publication details: T©ơbingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014.Description: xii, 253 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9783161529443 (pbk.)
- Perpetua, Saint, d. 203
- Felicity, Saint, d. 203
- Tertullian, ca. 160-ca. 230 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Comparative studies
- Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Eschatology -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Christian martyrs -- Tunisia
- Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Carthage (Extinct city) -- Church history
- 236.2 22/ger
- BT903 .G659 2014
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Based the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, 2013.
Includes bibliography (p. [215]-242) and indexes.
Introduction : the certainty and uncertainty of death -- Previous scholarship on the Passion of Perpetua -- The afterlife of the righteous in early Christianity -- Perpetua's ascent : contexts and sources -- The afterlife in the Passion of Perpetua and in the works of Tertullian -- Refrigerium and the Roman cult of the dead in the Passion of Perpetua -- The Passion of Perpetua, Tertullian, and ideological conflict in Carthage -- The interim state in the Passion of Perpetua and in the works of Tertullian -- The body, the soul, and continuity in early third-century Carthaginian Christianity -- Conclusion : death in transition.