Cremation, Embalmment, or Neither?
Alvin J. Schmidt
ISBN: | 9781490872100 |
Publisher: | WestBow Press |
Published: | 27 March, 2015 |
Format: | ePub |
Cremation, Embalmment, or Neither?
Alvin J. Schmidt
This book documents today's rising rates of cremation in the West, and notes that these rates now include many deceased Christians, a stark contrast to Christians in the past who had consistently rejected cremation from their earliest years in pagan Rome to the mid-1960s. Christians opposed and spurned cremation for a number of reasons, discussed in this book. By mid-fourth century, Christianity's rejection of cremation influenced pagan Rome to abandon cremation. Earth burial became the only acc
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