to 1600”. His systematization is instructive, particularly in the way it reveals an essential incoherence and redundancy within the traditional scheme. 1. temporal death, understood as the separation of body and soul; 2. the particular judgment whereby God passes immediate sentence on the soul at the time of death, assigning it to heaven, purgatory, or hell; 3. the so-called intermediate state which, consequent upon the particular judgment pertains to the state or condition of the disembodied souls
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