{"product_id":"heaven-can-wait-purgatory-in-catholic-devotional-and-popular-culture-hardcover","title":"Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Walsh Pasulka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the earth, or within it? Were its fires real or figurative? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking historical exploration of spatial and material concepts of purgatory, beginning with scholastic theologians William of Auvergne and Thomas Aquinas, who wrote about the location of purgatory and questioned whether its torments were physical or solely spiritual. In the same period, writers of devotional literature located purgatory within the earth, near hell, and even in Ireland. In the early modern era, a counter-movement of theologians downplayed purgatory's spatial dimensions, preferring to depict it in abstract terms--a view strengthened during the French Enlightenment, when references to purgatory as a terrestrial location or a place of real fire were ridiculed by anti-Catholic polemicists and discouraged by the Church. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe debate surrounding purgatory's materiality has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place. \u003cem\u003eHeaven Can Wait\u003c\/em\u003e provides crucial insight into the theological problem of purgatory's materiality (or lack thereof) over the past seven hundred years.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDiana Walsh Pasulka\u003c\/strong\u003e earned her B.A. degree from the University of California at Davis, her M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and has published on the subject of conceptions of the afterlife and Catholic history. She is the chair of the American Academy of Religion group Death and Dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.53 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777197441312,"sku":"9780195382020","price":121.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/964e449a4f563a25e27c2bab6c30f4fe.webp?v=1780494147","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/heaven-can-wait-purgatory-in-catholic-devotional-and-popular-culture-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}