A Protestant purgatory
Subtitle: theological origins of the Penitentiary Act, 1779
By: Laurie Throness.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780754663928
Subjects: Church of England -- Doctrines; Church of England -- Influence; Christianity and law -- Church of England; Law (Theology); Protestant churches -- Doctrines; Protestantism -- Influence; Correctional law -- England -- History -- 18th century; Prisons -- England -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The terror of the Lord; title: Angels and judges; title: God as temporal judge; title: God as judge of nations; title: God as judge through man; title: God as judge through the oath; title: God as eternal judge; title: Hell and the sentence of time; title: The intermediate state; title: A time and place for spirits; title: Images of spiritual prisons; title: Of purgatory; title: Places of waiting; title: The invisible state; title: Arrest and conveyance; title: The keeper; title: Horrid company; title: Torments in the intermediate state; title: The length and breadth of Hades; title: Crossing the threshold; title: The abominable fancy; title: The royal clemency; title: The extraction of grace; title: More than a metaphor; title: The great assize; title: Building the Penitentiary; title: The Convict Act; title: Eden and friends; title: Hospitals of mercy; title: Preparing the Penitentiary Act; title: Ergastulum or penitentiary?; title: Adam's doom; title: The fatal floodgate; title: A criminal named Adam; title: The beginning of work; title: The adjacent country; title: The make weight; title: Taking the kingdom by violence; title: The reassertion of original sin; title: The man in the wooden cage; title: The reality of depravity; title: Regeneration's promise; title: Retirement and the pastoral ideal; title: The strife of tongues; title: The man in the wooden cage; title: Reflection and the conscience; title: Solitude's space; title: Solitude for the uncondemned; title: An intermediate space; title: The measure of sin; title: Redeeming the time; title: The hazard of a death-bed repentance; title: Extending time; title: Last words; title: A question of evidence; title: A contrite heart; title: The production of sorrow; title: Proportion and time; title: Penance and time.