Early Crusade preaching treated battlefield death as salvation, not martyrdom

Evidence

To call a man who was simply killed in the course of fighting the enemies of the Church a martyr was to adopt the Muslim doctrine of jihad. This was not the idea which prevailed at the opening of the Crusading period; Urban at Clermont recommended death, in the Christian tradition, primarily as an end to the exile of this life; he did not refer explicitly to the hope of martyrdom, but took it for granted that Crusaders who died would be saved. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1777

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Defines a subtle distinction between the earlier Christian idea of death as release from exile versus the later, jihad-like framing of death in battle as martyrdom.
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the sacrifice article — this is a complementary Christian counterpart to the Muslim jihad doctrine of death in holy war.

Related

• Early crusading promised salvation, not martyrdom, for battlefield deaths. (similarity 0.89)
• Crusader martyrdom doctrine originated in borrowing from Muslim jihad (similarity 0.88)
• Crusader battlefield deaths were not technically martyrdom in medieval theology (similarity 0.86)
• Crusaders who died in battle were reframed as martyrs like the early church’s (similarity 0.83)
• Crusading was holy exercise and sentiment, not technical martyrdom. (similarity 0.83)
• Crusade chroniclers equated preaching and passive martyrdom with waging war (similarity 0.81)
• Medieval Christian theology could glorify enemy deaths as service to Christ (similarity 0.81)
• Crusade ideology framed killing Muslims as a joyous religious duty (similarity 0.79)