Medieval missionary zealotry could view a convert’s suicide as relief

Evidence

Huysmans believed that it was possible through conscious acceptance of one’s own physical and spiritual sufferings to take some of the burden of sin and suffering from others. In his death agonies Huysmans was to pray for Massignon’s soul. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 393 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval Christian theology could glorify enemy deaths as service to Christ; Enslaved Ibo sometimes suicided expecting souls to return to Africa.; Accepting one’s own suffering can relieve others’ burden of sin — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 393

Related

• Accepting one’s own suffering can relieve others’ burden of sin (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved Ibo sometimes suicided expecting souls to return to Africa. #exemplifies (0.78)
• Accepting one’s own suffering can relieve others’ burden of sin #expands (0.75) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 393
• Medieval Christian theology could glorify enemy deaths as service to Christ #complicates (0.72)