Praying for the dead
Subtitle: an historical review of the practice
By: by the Reverend R.J. Edmund Boggis....
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co....
Published: 1913
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Death -- Religious aspects.; Prayers for the dead.; Death.; Religion.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: List of Principal Authorities ix-xiv; title: I. The Antiquity and Extent of the Practice of Praying for the Dead 1; title: II. The Evidence of Judaism 14; title: III. The Evidence of the New Testament 30; title: IV. The Testimony of the Early Eastern Church 40; title: V. The Testimony of the Early Western Church 61; title: VI. The Testimony of the Liturgies 91; title: VII. The Evidence of Early Christian Tombs (Foreign) 116; title: VIII. Early British and English Evidence 123; title: IX. The Pre-Reformation Period in England 148; title: X. The Reformation Period in England 159; title: XI. The Recoil from Medievalism in England 195; title: XII. The Practice of English Churchmen (Post-Reformation) 213; title: XIII. The Attitude of Protestantism 241; title: XIV. The Church of England and the; title: Future 260; title: Index 265