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Několik poznámek k eschatologii v Rozmlouvání člověka se Smrtí
A Few notes on eschatology in Rozmlouvání člověka se Smrtí

Author(s): Bára Činčurová
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Theology and Religion, Czech Literature, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: Rozmlouvání člověka se Smrtí; christianity; eschatology; death; purgatory; late medieval Czech literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to shed more light on how the late medieval Czech dialogue Rozmlouvání člověka se Smrtí engages with eschatology. Firstly, it focuses on death; mainly that despite the dreadful descriptions of dying the poem maintains that death is a righteous, necessary pathway to an adequate afterlife. Attention is also paid to Trost’s remark that the personified Death embodies both, the first and the second death. Next, the paper focuses on the soul and the body in the dialogue, i. e. their painful separation and their reunion at the end of times. Lastly, the study touches upon afterlife, expanding Trost’s claim about death to concepts of personal and universal eschatology. While striving to capture the overlap of particular and final judgment or hell and second death, it stresses the importance of Death’s rejection of purgatory.

  • Issue Year: 71/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 177-194
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Czech
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