عنوان

Voices and Bodies:

شماره

LA122644

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Voices and Bodies:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

The Afterlife of the Unborn

نام نخستين پديدآور

Danuta Shanzer

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article discuses the fate of a special class of child, the unborn, in the afterlife, as well as the gradual criminalization of abortion in Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to a possible prohibition of abortion in Orphism that may underpin the nekyiai in P. Bon. 4. and Vergil Aen . 6. Then it turns to depictions of the aborted in the Apocalypse of Peter and its late antique off spring to show how the aborted fetus gradually acquires a visible body and an articulate voice. At the same time, the theology of sentiment works out its solutions to mitigate the problem of the innocent in hell. The fate of the almost bodiless fetus in the Resurrection became a bone of contention by the early 5th C. The satirical questions posed Christians about the resurrection of the unborn may first have been raised by Porphyry. His interest in the embryo and its ensoulment in the Pros Gauron are adduced as evidence. Attention is drawn to Augustine's doubts about the status and fate of the human embryo, and some reasons are suggested about why he hesitated to adopt an unambiguous "human from conception" position. In the 5th C., after the Pelagian controversy, attention began to shift from the unborn to the unbaptized, who dominate the nekyiai of the Middle Ages. The rise of the Mizuko kuyō cult in Japan shows astonishing parallels to what happened in Late Antiquity. This article discuses the fate of a special class of child, the unborn, in the afterlife, as well as the gradual criminalization of abortion in Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to a possible prohibition of abortion in Orphism that may underpin the nekyiai in P. Bon. 4. and Vergil Aen . 6. Then it turns to depictions of the aborted in the Apocalypse of Peter and its late antique off spring to show how the aborted fetus gradually acquires a visible body and an articulate voice. At the same time, the theology of sentiment works out its solutions to mitigate the problem of the innocent in hell. The fate of the almost bodiless fetus in the Resurrection became a bone of contention by the early 5th C. The satirical questions posed Christians about the resurrection of the unborn may first have been raised by Porphyry. His interest in the embryo and its ensoulment in the Pros Gauron are adduced as evidence. Attention is drawn to Augustine's doubts about the status and fate of the human embryo, and some reasons are suggested about why he hesitated to adopt an unambiguous "human from conception" position. In the 5th C., after the Pelagian controversy, attention began to shift from the unborn to the unbaptized, who dominate the nekyiai of the Middle Ages. The rise of the Mizuko kuyō cult in Japan shows astonishing parallels to what happened in Late Antiquity.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

326-365

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

56/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

ABORTION

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHRISTIANITY

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

FETUS

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

اصطلاح موضوعی

HELL

اصطلاح موضوعی

History of Religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

ORPHISM

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion & Society

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion in Antiquity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

RESURRECTION

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Danuta Shanzer

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852709X405035

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y