The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Requiem Mass

Chapter 1 explores the central role that the promise of universal resurrection and its enactment in the liturgy played in the constitution of the late medieval Christian community of faith. Together, it argues, raised voices and the promise of the resurrection of the dead created the ideal of a universal Christian community that was to remain forever united and that was bound together by a shared experience of ritual. The chapter presents a case study of the ways in which resurrection pervaded the aural, visual, and material culture of Nuremberg, particularly in the commemoration of the dead with the Requiem Mass and the Office of the Dead. Throughout the late medieval city, sounds, objects, and gestures defined a community of faith that was understood to encompass all Christians from the time of Christ until the apocalypse.

Singing the Resurrection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Individual

This book explores the lived experience of belief in Reformation Europe through two distinct yet deeply connected themes: the resurrection of the body and the act of singing. In late medieval Europe, the chanting of the Creed in the context of the Mass implied a universal community of faith that began in the time of Christ and was to endure until the dead were raised at the apocalypse. In the sixteenth century, these bonds were broken. European Christians continued to affirm the Creed’s promise of the universal resurrection of the dead, but they raised their voices in a range of new songs, each of which expressed a different interpretation of resurrection’s promise of the restoration of the individual body and the reunion of the Christian community. Using case studies drawn from each of the major traditions of the Reformation—Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Catholic—this book reveals sixteenth-century belief in its full complexity. Whereas narratives of the Reformation have long equated belief with doctrine, songs of resurrection reveal contemporary understandings of belief that at once emphasized its understanding and embodiment, its ephemerality and eternal endurance, its utter individuality and its power as a tie that bound. In the religious ruptures of the Reformation, this book argues, belief was transformed into a way of living in the world.

scholarly journals The Babylonian Exile of the Judaeans and the Formation of the Doctrine of the Bodily Resurrection from the Dead: From the Naturalistic Allegory of the Collective Revival of the Jews upon their Expected Return to Judaea through the Personified Image of the People’s Rising from the Dead to the Concept of an Individual Eschatological Resurrection in the Flesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Igor Tantlevskij
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Babylonian Exile

The author reveals the following sequence in the formation of the Jewish doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead: during the Babylonian captivity of the Judaeans, a naturalistic allegory of their revival upon their expected return to their Motherland arises (Ezek. 37:1–14, Isa. 26:19, 41:14); by the end of the period of exile / at the very beginning of the Persian period, the personified image of the people’s rising from the dead is developing (the allegory of the Servant of the Lord in Isa. 42:1–9, 49: 1–7, 50:4–9, 52:13–53:12; perhaps also the image of Job, cf. especially: Job 19:25–27a and 42:5, 7–17). In the time of another national catastrophe — the persecution of the faithful Jews under Antiochus IV Epiphanes — the concept of an individual eschatological resurrection in the flesh arises; at this receiving of the afterlife requital is assumed to be realized in the body (Dan. 12:1b–3, 13).

Multi-Ethnicity and Material Exchanges in Late Medieval Tallinn

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 656-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Naum
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
The Town

This article examines the cultural and social dynamics of a multi-ethnic medieval town. Taking the lower town of Tallinn as a case study, this paper identifies the major urban ethnic groups living in the town and discusses their co-existence, self-definition, and processes of categorization. It explores ambiguities arising from daily interactions in the shared physical landscape of the town, such as material exchanges, and the development of new technological solutions, and the simultaneous insistence on maintenance of sharp inter-group boundaries. As material culture plays a significant role in the negotiation of identities and in visualizing sameness and difference, emphasis is placed on the ways objects were used in the daily lives of Tallinn's multi-ethnic communities.

Walking in the Resurrection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Lambert
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the ways in which resurrection was transformed in the songs and martyr stories of Dutch Anabaptism, with a particular focus on the trial of a clandestine community in which songs circulated in Amsterdam. Drawing on the theology of Menno Simons, Dirk Philips, and David Joris, Anabaptists sang not of the raising of the body but of a spiritual resurrection that took place with the acceptance of baptism. In turn, they redefined the Christian life as a “walk in resurrection.” A shared walk through the world, comprised of ordinary actions such as breaking bread and singing together, also defined the Christian community. Anabaptists’ songs, this chapter thus suggests, reveal the complexity of the relationship between belief and its enactment, and they reshape our understanding of the community of faith, casting it as the product of shared experience.

The Holy Scripture Tells of the Resurrection from the Dead, nor does Reason Oppose It: The soul Separated does not Sleep

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn A. Lewis ◽  
Davide A. Secci ◽  
Christian Hengstermann ◽  
John H. Lewis ◽  
Benjamin Williams
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead

This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Holy Scripture Tells of the Resurrection from the Dead, nor does Reason Oppose It. The soul Separated does not Sleep. Here Rust expresses his views about the resurrection of the dead. He cites I Corinthians 15:53, ‘For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality’, and analyses the reasoning by means of which the body is said to be the same throughout the entire span of life. Rust ends the discussion with the statement ‘The Holy Scripture tells of the resurrection from the dead, nor does reason oppose it’.

Play and Playfulness in Late Medieval Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Board Games ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Life Course

Play and playfulness is a key element in enabling social performance and one that transcends ethnicity, time, and space across all social levels. This contribution explores board games as a case study of play and performance in the medieval period, in a European context. It highlights some of the key discoveries of gaming material culture and their diverse contexts: castles, monasteries, churches, villages, and ships included. These underpin questions of gender, identity, pilgrimage behaviour and ritual, and the life-course. Play, it is argued is fundamental to the performance and negotiation of agency in a range of gendered settings both secular and religious.

Ghosts and Ghostbusters in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 143-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Silent Majority ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Middle Ages

The dead are the silent majority in the Church’s history – as they are, indeed, in humanity’s. The life after death is a matter of faith and conjecture more than tried and tested certainty, predicated on a soul which survives the death of the body. That raises issues about the nature and structure of the afterlife, its pains and delights. For the late medieval Church, the afterlife raised particular concerns and anxieties, its complex division into heaven, hell, and purgatory promising a future which had to be planned for. Strategies for eternity were a major force in religious practice, with death as the threshold to something unknown until experienced.

Revisiting the Dead: Tomb Reuse and Post-Burial Practices at Ascoli Satriano (Pre-Roman Apulia, Seventh–Fourth Centurybc)

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
Matthias Hoernes ◽  
Christian Heitz ◽  
Manuele Laimer
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
The Body ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Complex Procedure ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Archaeology Of Death ◽  
The Way

In the archaeology of death and burial, the premise that the dead were buried ritually and not simply disposed of seems to be accepted without argument. Where graves were reopened and reused for subsequent burials, however, the post-funeral manipulation of ‘older’ depositions is often regarded as having been primarily pragmatic and circumstantial. Countering this interpretative imbalance, we argue that the reuse of tombs was a highly complex procedure that forced communities into negotiating and formalizing, or even ritualizing, the way in which bodies and objects were acted on and engaged with. Taking the necropolis Giarnera Piccola/Ascoli Satriano in pre-Roman northern Apulia as a case study, and employing a microarchaeological-archaeothanatological perspective, we discuss the diverse and sometimes conflicting practices used to deal with pre-existing graves, objects and human remains, identifying tensions between maintaining or reconstructing the integrity of the body and intentionally manipulating and fragmenting it. We argue that repeatedly reused tombs constituted a socially and symbolically charged arena for a prolonged, active relationship with the deceased and for mobilizing, mediating and maintaining inter-generational memories.

Angelic humans, glorious flesh: Jerome’s reception of Origen’s teachings on the resurrection body

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Katarina Pålsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Difference

Abstract One of the most important theological questions in the first Origenist controversy was that of the resurrection of the dead. Jerome accused both Origen and contemporary “Origenists” of speaking only of the resurrection of the body, and not of the flesh, and he claimed that an idea of resurrection without the flesh could not guarantee the identity between the body living on earth and the resurrected body. I argue that although Jerome attempted to maximize the difference between himself and Origen by speaking of flesh instead of body, and by emphasizing the sameness of the body, it is clear that he, too, thought that the resurrection would imply a profound change. At closer scrutiny, Jerome’s way of understanding this change, namely as the nature remaining the same while the glory increases, shows striking similarities to Origen’s explanation of change. I argue that Jerome was dependent on Origen’s ideas about the resurrection, even in his polemics against him. Jerome’s heresiological strategies, I argue, have had consequences for modern historical reconstructions of his eschatological thought, which is often presented in opposition to Origen’s more spiritual understanding. Awareness of the rhetorical strategies used by Jerome in the context of controversy is crucial, I claim, in assessing a continuing reception of Origen in his theology.

scholarly journals Pandangan tentang Kematian dan Kebangkitan Orang Mati dalam Perjanjian Lama

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139
Author(s):  
Sujud Swastoko
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
The World ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Dead

This article tries to find answers to views on death and resurrection in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the discussion of the death and resurrection of the dead and the judgment is less prominent than in the New Testament, so there are fewer reading texts. That is why the issue becomes interesting to be examined more deeply. This research uses a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach, by taking the main source from the Old Testament Bible and supporting literature. Based on the results of research conducted, then during the Old Testament, people believe in death as a form of separation of body and spirit. When dead, the body will return to dust, and the spirit enters the world of the dead (Sheol). In the Old Testament, people believe in the bodily resurrection (the dead), that is, the physical resurrection.Artikel ini mencoba mencari jawaban atas pandangan terhadap kematian dan kebangkitan dalam Perjanjian Lama. Dalam Perjanjian Lama pembahasan masalah kematian dan kebangkitan orang mati serta penghakiman tidak begitu menonjol dibandingkan dengan dalam Perjanjian Baru, sehingga teks bacaan yang ada juga lebih sedikit. Oleh karena itulah persoalan tersebut menjadi menarik untuk diteliti lebih mendalam. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif, dengan mengambil sumber utama dari Alkitab Perjanjian Lama dan literatur yang mendukung. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan, maka pada masa Perjanjian Lama orang memercayai kematian sebagai bentuk pemisahan tubuh dan rohnya. Saat mati, tubuh akan kembali menjadi debu, dan roh masuk ke dunia orang mati (syeol). Dalam Perjanjian Lama, orang percaya akan adanya kebangkitan tubuh (orang mati), yaitu bangkitnya tubuh secara fisik. 

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