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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture On Monday, January 31, 2011, at 4:21 pm, Meg Cormack wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if the learned list-members could point me in the direction > of early discussions of the afterlife in the first 4 centuries of > Christianity, or subsequently in eastern traditions? I´m examining > western medieval concepts of the immediate (and not so immediate) fate > of the soul, and would like directions to primary sources (or good > secondary ones) on this topic in English. I know there are > histories of heaven and hell out there, I´d actually like to find > something that deals with both options, and /or other possibilities, > especially in the eastern churches, but I don´t read Greek. > Meg Dear Meg, You should get some good pointers from John M. Dillon, ed., _The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul: Reflections of Platonic Psychology in the Monotheistic Religions_ (Leiden: Brill, 2009), esp. Dirk Krausmüller's contribution on pp. 47-76: "Faith and Reason in Late Antiquity: The Perishability Axiom and its Impact on Christian Views about the Origin and Nature of the Soul". Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html