Atoning in purgatory

Joshua C. Thurow

DOI:10.1017/S0034412516000056

Corpus ID: 171270214

Atoning in purgatory

@article{Thurow2017AtoningIP,
  title={Atoning in purgatory},
  author={Joshua C. Thurow},
  journal={Religious Studies},
  year={2017},
  volume={53},
  pages={217-237}
}

Joshua C. Thurow

Published 2017

Philosophy

Religious Studies

This article develops a new argument – The Argument from Atonement – that commonplace Christian assumptions about heaven imply the existence of purgatory. According to this argument, many Christians will die with residual moral guilt due to possessing unfulfilled moral debts towards fellow non-divine humans. Some of these debts cannot be fulfilled immediately after death and are not completely fulfilled or cancelled by Jesus's atoning work. Christians with such debts are fit neither for heaven… CONTINUE READING

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