The shape of death
Subtitle: life, death and immortality in the early fathers
By: Jaroslav Pelikan
Series: Laidlaw lectures -- 1959
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1962
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Copyright date: 1961
Subjects: Pères de l'Église; Death; Eschatology; History of doctrines; Immortality; Mort; Fathers of the church
Description: The core of the Christian faith is pessimism about life and optimism about God, and therefore hope for life in God. These five chapters examine some of the forms that this pessimism about life and optimism about God took during the second and third centuries, as the Christian community began to reflect upon the implications of its message. They are based upon the though of five Church Fathers from those centuries: Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Origen and Irenaeus. The titles of these essays are symbols taken from plane geometry because these five figures seem to summarize the several insights into "the shape of death" characteristic of these five Christian theologians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index.

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