After purgatory was proclaimed an official doctrine of the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation. Over the centuries, the debate surrounding purgatory has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Problem with Purgatory
- 1. When Purgatory Was a Place on Earth: The Purgatory Cave on the Red Lake in Ireland
- 2. Lough Derg: Moving Purgatory Off the Earth
- 3. Exile from Ireland: Bishop John England's Republican Apologetics of Purgatory
- 4. That Sensible Neighborhood to Hell: Providence and Materiality within the Periodical (1830-1920)
- 5. The Ghosts of Vatican II: Purgatory Apostolates and the Lexicon of the Supernatural
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
