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Purgatory Is Not the Medium Place

7/13/2019

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The landscape of the Christian afterlife has never been static, and over the last 2,000 years, the theology of what the hereafter looks like has evolved drastically.  In this episode, we trace the origins and medieval development of one of the most significant and controversial Christian beliefs: Purgatory.

​Podcaster: Nathan

Further Reading


Jacques Le Goff,  The Birth of Purgatory,  Trans. Arthur Goldhammer., University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Abagail Frey, ed.  A New History of Penance.  Brill, 2008.

Robert Meens, Penance in Medieval Europe, 600-1200.  Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Isabel Moreira,  Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity.  Oxford University Press, 2010.

Peter Brown, "The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages."  In Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages.  Ed. Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.  pp.41-59.

Peter Brown, "The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and the Afterlife Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages."  The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 20 (1999): 19-85.

Carolyn Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Dead in Western Christianity, 200-1336.  Columbia University Press, 1995.

Joseph Ntedika,  L'Évolution de la doctrine du purgatoire chez saint Augustin.  Études Augustiniennes, 1966.

Alan F.  Segal,LIfe After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion.  Doubleday, 1989.
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Marina Smythe, "The Origins of Purgatory Through the Lens of Seventh-Century Irish Eschatology," Traditio 58 (2003): 91-132.
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Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com) ​

1 Comment
David Ford
7/30/2019 11:52:46 am

Christianity is waning in Europe and in cultures of European origin. When one listens to this podcast it is not hard to understand why. If God is the designer and creator of the universe, how likely is it that humans could possibly comprehend such an entity?

What is here is merely a tissue of human assertions, easily seen as false by those of another faith, such as the scientific materialism which has become ingrained in the sub conscious of all thinking Europeans?

If Christianity wants to regain credibility, it needs to face up to the fact that mere assertions will not suffice. But then, assertions were never good for it. They led away from the compassion which was the basic teaching of its founder and towards pursuit of power.

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