Purgatory and the “Time” of the Eschatological Healing of Victims
There is an emergent need in Catholic eschatology to theologize about the postmortem healing of victims. While tracing the entire history of the postmortem healing of victims is beyond the scope of this article, my overview will focus on the recent sensitivity to the plight of victims in the afterli...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2022
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Modern theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 704-728 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Volf, Miroslav 1956-
/ Sacrifice (Social psychology)
/ Healing
/ Purgatory
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church NBQ Eschatology |
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| Summary: | There is an emergent need in Catholic eschatology to theologize about the postmortem healing of victims. While tracing the entire history of the postmortem healing of victims is beyond the scope of this article, my overview will focus on the recent sensitivity to the plight of victims in the afterlife, particularly in response to the writings of Miroslav Volf. I then turn to the question of when this healing takes place. Catholic theology has deployed three primary models in the past century to answer this question: healing in death, in heaven, and in an intermediate state process. I analyze each of these possibilities and conclude that an intermediate state process model, one that employs the doctrine of purgatory but further develops it to take the healing of victims into account, is most biblically appropriate and theologically sensitive to the needs of victims. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12783 |