Search
Navigation
Join our mailing list!
(Your shopping cart is empty)
Home
>
American Philosophical Society
>
Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature
Our Price:
$
20.00
Year:
1989
Pages:
100
Binding
Hardcover
Product Code:
0871697955
Description
Cindy L. Vitto (au). For pious Christians of every age, the question of ultimate concern has been salvation: What is necessary to ensure the soul’s eternal bliss? During the Middle Ages, within the Church itself, the guidelines were clear: baptism, reception of the sacraments, an attempt to put into practice the teachings of Christ. But a theological debate arose on the possibility of salvation for those outside the Church, who fell into two basic categories: those who had been offered the Christian faith but had refused it, & those who, for reasons of chronology or geography, lacked the opportunity to join the Church but lived as virtuously as possible. Two categories of these “virtuous pagans” who received special attention were the classical poets & philosophers of Greece & Rome, & the Old Testament patriarchs. From the standpoint of human reason, it seemed especially unfortunate that these two groups should be damned eternally. This study discusses the theological background of this issue; the Virtuous Pagan in legend & in Dante; St. Erkenwald’s Harrowing of Hell; & “Piers Plowman”: Issues in Salvation & the Harrowing as Thematic Climax.
Related Products...
18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786 (Transaction 93-2)
Our Price:
$24.00
Add
First I Find the Center Point: Reading the Text of Hugh of Saint Victor's “The Mystic Ark” (Transaction 94-4)
Our Price:
$15.00
Add
Beyond Combat: Essays in Military History in Honor of Russell F. Weigley (Transaction 97-4)
Our Price:
$15.00
Add
Baccio Bandinelli & Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources (Memoir 251)
Our Price:
$60.00
Add
John Haygarth, FRS: A Physician of the Enlightenment (1740-1827) (Memoir 254)
Our Price:
$60.00
Add
Share your knowledge of this product with other customers...
Be the first to write a review
Diane Publishing Co
PO Box 617
Darby, PA 19023-0617
1-800-782-3833
About Us
Become an Affiliate
Privacy Policy
Send Us Feedback
Company Info
|
Advertising
|
Product Index
|
Category Index
|
Help
|
Terms of Use
Copyright � 2004 Diane Publishing Company. All Rights Reserved.
Built with
Volusion