| FA-232828-16 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Ellen Muehlberger | The Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death in Early Christianity | 9/1/2016 - 4/30/2017 | $33,600.00 | Ellen | | Muehlberger | | | | Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | MI | 48109-1382 | USA | 2015 | Ancient History | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 33600 | 0 | 33600 | 0 | A book-length history of changes in the understanding of death in 4th-century Christianity and its impact on the roots of religious violence.
A history of how in late antiquity Christians began to think of death as a terrifying, difficult experience followed by judgment and punishment, this book argues that the cultural changes that defined death as a moment of reckoning also facilitated the late ancient adoption of violence against others for ideological purposes. |