TY - BOOK AU - Gonz©Łlez,Eliezer TI - The fate of the dead in early third century North African Christianity: the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas and Tertullian T2 - Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum = SN - 9783161529443 (pbk.) AV - BT903 .G659 2014 U1 - 236.2 22/ger PY - 2014/// CY - T©ơbingen PB - Mohr Siebeck KW - Perpetua, KW - Felicity, KW - Tertullian, KW - Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis KW - Death KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Comparative studies KW - Future life KW - Eschatology KW - Christian martyrs KW - Tunisia KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Carthage (Extinct city) N1 - 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 UR - http://d-nb.info/1042673403/04 ER -