Rescue for the Dead —— The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity

----- 拯救死者：早期基督教中非基督徒的死后拯救

ISBN: 9780195140996 出版年：2003 页码：223 Trumbower, Jeffrey A Oxford University Press

Christianity is a religion of salvation in which believers have always anticipated post-mortem bliss for the faithful and non-salvation for others. Here, Trumbower examines how and why death came to be perceived as such a firm boundary of salvation. Analyzing exceptions to this principle from ancient Christianity, he finds that the principle itself was slow to develop and not universally accepted in the Christian movement's first four hundred years. In fact, only in the West was this principle definitively articulated, due in large part to the work and influence of Augustine.