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Life after death
Is purgatory a state everyone goes through?
formal definition in the 12th and 13th centuries
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How did
St. Thomas Aquinas
explain the nature of
purgatory
and the types of sins associated with it?
State of being-
venial sin
(less serious sins)
what was the significance of the Second Council of Lyon in 1274 for the doctrine of purgatory?
declared
middle
state where souls are
purified.
Emphasised prayer in particular mass
how did visionary literature, such as
Dante's
Divine Comedy
, shape the medieval imagination of
purgatory
?
it explained a mountain where souls ascended through levels of purification- descriptions of purgatory