The Hour of Our DeathThis remarkable book -- the fruit of almost two decades of study -- traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. -- Provided by publisher. |
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Page 150
... dead . The dead are not mentioned after the living of the first list , but rather after the saints of the second list , in whose company they are . The bishop says , " And also for the souls of those who sleep ( spiritibus pausantium ) ...
... dead . The dead are not mentioned after the living of the first list , but rather after the saints of the second list , in whose company they are . The bishop says , " And also for the souls of those who sleep ( spiritibus pausantium ) ...
Page 480
... dead that the ancients had always respected . The dead " remained forever separated from the living . . . . The dead , for fear of harming the living , observed not only a quarantine but an interdict that would not be lifted until the ...
... dead that the ancients had always respected . The dead " remained forever separated from the living . . . . The dead , for fear of harming the living , observed not only a quarantine but an interdict that would not be lifted until the ...
Page 543
... dead : " The striking progress that has been achieved especially in France in two generations in the cult of the dead is due to the admirable influence of Paris . For , as we have observed , theology , especially monotheistic , does not ...
... dead : " The striking progress that has been achieved especially in France in two generations in the cult of the dead is due to the admirable influence of Paris . For , as we have observed , theology , especially monotheistic , does not ...
Contents
The Tame Death | 5 |
Place of Burial | 29 |
The Final Reckoning | 95 |
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