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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...

dwellings;”4 “a never fading crown of glory;”5 an “everlasting kingdom.”6 St. John frequently refers to the abode of the Blessed as “eternal life.”7 b) The Fathers conceived Heaven as unending. Heaven must be everlasting, says St. Augustine, because no happiness could be perfect that would be overshadowed by the fear of a possible cessation or loss.8 St. Thomas defines eternity as an intrinsic and essential quality without which Heaven would not be Heaven. The opinion of some of the later Scotists
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