Purgatory (eBook)

Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte is Invited Professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He started his studies in Philosophy at the Higher Institute for Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained his PHD in Philosophy at the Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy. He studied Spiritual Theology at the Pontifical University Gregoriana, and was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh. In 2010 he was awarded the 'European Philosophy from Kant to the Present Prize', issued by the University of Kentucky. He has published on topics ranging from continental philosophy, patristics, theology-philosophy-politics interdependencies, educational theory, to football.   Benjamin W. McCraw teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate.  His research focuses primarily on epistemology and philosophy of religion.  He’s published articles in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy and Theology, Social Epistemology, and Logos and Episteme as well as co-editor of The Concept of Hell, Philosophical Approaches to the Devil,  The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical Directions, and Philosophical Approaches to Demonology

1. Introduction2. Purgatory, Atonement, and the Self 3. Religious and Paranormal Experiences as Evidence for Purgatory 4.  In the Twinkling of an Eyea5.  Purgatory’s Temporality6.6. Indulgent Love     7. Leibniz, Purgatory, and Universal Salvation8.  Mirror Geography: On the Emergence of Purgatory and the City 9.  Climbing up to Heaven: the Hermetic Option 10.   Poetry as Purgatorial: Dante and the Language(s) of Purgatory  11.  Aquinas and the Possibility of a Probable Reasoned Argument for the Existence of                 Purgatory 12.  The Body in Crisis: Contemporary Articulation of Purgatory  13. Praying for the Dead: An Ecumenical Proposal14.. On the Metaphysics of Economics and Purgatory 15. Issues of Impermanence: Christian and Early Buddhist Contemplations of Time  16. The Purification of Doubt: Is it Better to Exist in Purgatory?