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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...

.—“Death,”1 in common as well as Scriptural usage, means the cessation of life. a) There is a threefold life (physical, spiritual, and eternal), and hence there must be a threefold death. (1) Physical death consists in the separation of the body from the soul; (2) Spiritual death is the loss of sanctifying grace, caused by original or mortal sin;2 (3) “Eternal death” is a synonym for damnation. St. John3 calls damnation
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