The problem with Purgatory -- When Purgatory was a place on earth: the Purgatory cave on the Red Lake in Ireland -- Lough Derg: 'heretical around the edges': moving Purgatory off the earth -- Exile from Ireland: Bishop John England's Republican apologetics of Purgatory -- That sensible neighborhood to hell: fiery apologetics: providence and materiality within the periodical (1830-1920) -- The ghosts of Vatican II: Purgatory apostolates and the lexicon of the supernatural
Summary
Pasulka examines the problems associated with the location of purgatory, which was defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century. It argues that purgatory's location and spatial qualities have been a problem throughout the history of the doctrine, as scholastic theologians William of Auvergne and Thomas Aquinas speculated and disagreed about its location and whether or not its torments were physical or nonphysical