Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

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.

• | By (Author): Diana Walsh Pasulka (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington) (Author)
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Jan 08, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0195382021
• | ISBN-13: 9780195382020