The fate of the dead in early third century North African Christianity : the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian /

Gonz©Łlez, Eliezer, 1965-

The fate of the dead in early third century North African Christianity : the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian / Eliezer Gonzalez. - T©ơbingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. - xii, 253 p. ; 23 cm. - Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum = Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity, 83. 1436-3003 ; . - Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 83. .

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.

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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.

BT903 / .G659 2014

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