Moment of Reckoning

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Moment of Reckoning is written by Ellen Muehlberger and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190937874 (ISBN 10) and 9780190937874 (ISBN 13).

In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces this early tradition of imagining the experience of dying and points to its consequences in later Christian thought.