Purgatory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 06/05/2019

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00:02:27 1 History of the belief
00:04:29 2 Christianity
00:05:00 2.1 Catholicism
00:05:35 2.1.1 The purgatory of Catholic doctrine
00:09:39 2.1.2 Role in relation to sin
00:12:53 2.1.3 Speculations and imaginings about purgatory
00:16:01 2.1.4 Fire
00:22:25 2.1.5 Popular notion of purgatory as fiery
00:22:57 2.1.6 Popular notion of purgatory as a place
00:26:11 2.2 Eastern Orthodoxy
00:31:20 2.3 Protestantism
00:36:14 2.3.1 Anglicanism
00:39:35 2.3.2 Lutheranism
00:41:52 2.3.3 Methodism
00:43:03 2.4 Latter-day Saint Movement
00:44:05 3 Judaism
00:46:58 4 Islam
00:47:41 5 Cultural references



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Purgatory (Latin: purgatorium, via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christians, an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification.The Catholic Church holds that "all who die in God's grace and friendship but still imperfectly purified" undergo this process (which the Church calls purgatory), "so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven". It has formulated this doctrine by reference to biblical verses that speak of purifying fire (1 Corinthians 3:15 and 1 Peter 1:7) and to the mention by Jesus of forgiveness in the age to come (Matthew 12:32). It bases its teaching also on the practice of praying for the dead in use within the Church ever since the Church began and which is mentioned even earlier in 2 Macc 12:46.According to Jacques Le Goff, the conception of purgatory as a physical place came into existence in Western Europe towards the end of the twelfth century. According to him, the conception involves the idea of a purgatorial fire, which he suggests "is expiatory and purifying not punitive like hell fire". At the Second Council of Lyon in 1247, strong Eastern Orthodox opposition to the idea of a third place in the afterlife containing fire was one of the differences that prevented reunification with the Catholic Church. That council's teaching on purgatory made no mention of these notions, which are absent also in the declarations by the Councils of Florence and Trent at which especially the Catholic Church formulated its doctrine on purgatory. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have declared that the term does not indicate a place, but a condition of existence.The Church of England, mother church of the Anglican Communion, officially denounces what it calls "the Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory", but the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Methodist Churches, and elements of the Anglican and Lutheran traditions hold that for some there is cleansing after death and pray for the dead. Judaism also believes in the possibility of after-death purification and may even use the word "purgatory" to present its understanding of the meaning of the similar rabbinical concept of Gehenna.The word "purgatory" has come to refer also to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation and is used, in a non-specific sense, to mean any place or condition of suffering or torment, especially one that is temporary.