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Eschatology, or the Catholic Doctrine of the Last Things: A Dogmatic Treatise is unavailable, but you can change that!

The end times have captivated the imaginations of Christians throughout the centuries. Significant portions of Scripture are devoted to Christ’s return, and countless theological works have been written on death, heaven and hell, the apocalypse, and other eschatological topics. This volume adds an important voice to the volumes of literature already written on the subject. Pohle writes lengthy...

consists in the intuitive vision of the Divine Essence (visio Dei intuitiva), as opposed to the purely abstractive and analogical knowledge which man has of God here below. St. Paul describes the difference between these two kinds of knowledge as follows: “Now we see in a mirror, obscurely; but then [we shall see] face to face. Now I know in part; then shall I know fully, even as I have been fully known [by God].”5 As the Divine Essence subsists in three distinct Persons, the beatific vision involves
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