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Icons of Hope : The "Last Things" in Catholic Imagination /

In this book, a Catholic theologian author argues that modern theologians have been unduly reticent in their writing about last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Beholden to a historical-critical standard of interpretation, they often have been reluctant to engage in eschatological reflecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thiel, John E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • For what may we hope? : Thoughts on the eschatological imagination
  • Imagining the life of the blessed dead
  • Time, judgment, and competitive spirituality : a reading of the development of the doctrine of purgatory
  • Imagining the last judgment
  • Forgiveness in the communion of the saints : eschatology in a noncompetitive key.