RELI 2732 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Polycarp, Christian Eschatology
27 Feb 2016
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It was considered optimal to be buried near a saint: jesus was to return as a saviour and judge. In 399 bce socrates was sentenced to death as a traitor. He influenced youth to love wisdom rather than focusing on more practical" things. He was deemed a danger to public order. He was given the option of banishment (escape) or death by poison. Believing in immortality, he calmly accepted the poison. He saw death as merely a change in residence and welcomed it as a friend. Philosophy had been a rehearsal for death by allowing the eye of the soul to rise above the limitations of the body . Jesus, on the contrary, did not welcome death as a friend but shunned it as an enemy. He was distressed troubled, didn"t want to be left alone and prayed to be spared from death. To christians, death is not conquered through calm acceptance, but through resurrection.
