Christian Platonism and the Debate about Afterlife


In the sixth and seventh centuries the belief in an active afterlife and its corollaries, the cult of the saints and the care of the dead, came under attack by a group of people who claimed that the souls could not function without their bodies. Some defenders of the traditional point of view sought...

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Main Author: Krausmuller, Dirk (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Scrinium
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 242-260
RelBib Classification:KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages
NBQ Eschatology
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B John of Scythopolis 
 Maximus the Confessor
 Christian Platonism
 afterlife
 self-movement

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