Purgatory is for real : good news about the afterlife for those who aren't perfect yet / Karlo Broussard.
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TextPublisher: El Cajon, California : Catholic Answers Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xiv, 219 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781683571865
- 168357186X
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
To some, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is murky and mysterious-even scary. What is this shadowy state between earth and heaven supposed to be? Others wonder how it's even possible for saved souls to be suffering in the afterlife if Jesus has already redeemed them. No wonder that non-Christians imagine purgatory in sensationalistic ways, and Protestants condemn it as an "unbiblical tradition of men." In Purgatory Is for Real, Catholic apologist Karlo Broussard (Meeting the Protestant Challenge) definitively tackles this most-misunderstood teaching, giving you the evidence and arguments to see (and explain to others) that purgatory is neither contrary to Scripture nor some fantastical dogma that Rome invented. Rather, it is firmly rooted in biblical truth and the faith and practice of the earliest Christians. Even more importantly, Karlo shows that purgatory is not a cause for dread but a hopeful, even joyful sign of God's love for us. It is a great consolation, a call for all Christians to pursue deeper holiness, and an opportunity to build loving solidarity with those who have gone before us. Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219).
Introduction -- Section 1: Other religious traditions. 1. Purgatory in non-Christian traditions ; 2. Purgatory in non-Catholic Christian traditions ; A Joyful truth: consolation for believers -- Section 2: The Bible. 3. Purgatory implied by revealed principles ; 4. Purgatory in the Old Testament ; 5. Purgatory in Jesus' teaching ; 6. Purgatory in Paul's teaching ; 7. A popular Biblical objection to purgatory ; A joyful truth: Joys beyond this world -- Section 3. The early church and the magisterium. 8. Purgatory in early Christian testimony ; 9. Purgatory in magisterial teaching ; 10. Thinking through the theology of purgatory. A joyful truth: The pursuit of holiness -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Purgatory in the lives of the saints.
"Catholic apologist Karlo Broussard definitively tackles this most misunderstood teaching, giving you the evidence and arguments to see (and explain to others) that purgatory is neither contrary to Scripture nor some fantastical dogma that Rome invented. Rather, it is firmly rooted in biblical truth and the faith and practice of the earliest Christians...." --From back cover.