Non-Christian sources of the funeral liturgy and the deceased cult in the Early Christianity
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https://doi.org/10.12775/TiCz.2016.020Keywords
cult, funeral liturgy, death, rite, body, prayer for the dead (caddish)Abstract
The article presents, in an orderly way, the living people’s attitude to the dead body, to the cult which it was surrounded by. Along with appearing of the new religion and in the reaction on the fact of death, Christianity initiated the process of creating its own funeral liturgy. The process of searching and adjusting local rites and non-Christian elements of the funeral ceremony began. Christianity, taking those elements which could have been a part of the doctrinal context, adapted them and purified of the traces which were against the then Church teaching. The paper can be divided into three parts: explaining the basic terms, connected with taking the extraneous elements out of the religions before Christianity; particular activities that were taking place on the body of deceased and activities progressed over the graves of the dead. Due to those deliberations, it can be presumed that Christian funeral rites are not an absolute novelty, as the arisen religion but it is a series of activities, elaborated by the previous generations and adjust up to the teaching of Jesus Christ and the spirit of the Gospel.
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