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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard K Fenn |
ISBN: | 0521550394 9780521550390 0521568552 9780521568555 |
OCLC Number: | 32200349 |
Description: | viii, 209 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : testing claims to grace : the intensification of time -- Silent anguish : distinguishing the cure for soul-loss from the disease -- Purgatory as a way of life : time as the essence of the soul -- The modern self emerges : Baxter Locke, and the prospect of heaven -- Locke, reason, and the soul -- The American purgatory and the state -- Protestants and Catholics in the American purgatory -- Charles Dickens in the American purgatory : the eternal foreground. |
Responsibility: | Richard K. Fenn. |
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'Fenn bores into strata of the history of purgatory from its origins as a specific place in the twelfth century to its manifestation as a secularized 'purgatorial complex' profoundly affecting the lives of many contemporary Americans.' Stephen Pattison, Heythrop Journal Read more...
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- Time
- Purgatoire -- Histoire des doctrines.
- Temps.
- Âme -- Histoire des doctrines.
- Civilisation moderne et contemporaine.
- Civilisation occidentale.
- États-Unis -- Vie religieuse.
- time.
- Fegefeuer
- Moderne
- Vagevuur.
- Theology, Doctrinal.