RLG203H5 Lecture 5: Christianity-5.docx
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Why early christians would have celebrated perpetua"s death, and, insofar as you can fit it in, how the cult of the saints (as brown describes) broke down the barrier between heaven and earth. Earthly beauty and divine salvation : women in the middle represents lust, sex then on the right and left it does a skeleton and satan meaning death, means of remembering death and complementing ones morality, remembering that the living is soon going to be dead, why is the body so important in christianity, martyrs are seconds christ"s, sacrifice for bread and wine as flesh, how did christian ideas about death and the body challenge prevailing non . Leave the city: he said he wants the follow the law and to leave the city was worse than death, was it death noble, conclusions, what counts as martyrdom or noble death is relative, consequences and context are really important, death in isolation doesn"t work.
