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The Development of Purgatory ✤ Purgatory: a place of puri cation ✤ Culpa: (latin) guilt, or faul ✤ Pena: (latin root of penance) punishmen ✤ If you commit a sin, you can repent and be forgiven. However, you must also pay the penalty for that sin. fi...

The Development of Purgatory ✤ Purgatory: a place of puri cation ✤ Culpa: (latin) guilt, or faul ✤ Pena: (latin root of penance) punishmen ✤ If you commit a sin, you can repent and be forgiven. However, you must also pay the penalty for that sin. fi t t  The Development of Purgatory ✤ There is no Biblical basis for Purgatory; it ful lls a philosophical need ✤ Do only martyrs and saints go to heaven? Can we all be saintly? ✤ What happens if you die without repenting your sins? Even if you were a good person ✤ What happens if you were not baptized? ✤ It is a Catholic doctrine only; Orthodox and Protestant Christians do not believe in Purgatory ? fi :  The Development of Purgatory ✤ Venial Sin: an act of a less serious matter, or one which involves grave matter but is performed without full knowledge or complete consent of the will ✤ Venial sins can be forgiven but still require repentanc ✤ Mortal Sin: ts three criteria, 1: it is an act of grave or serious matter (eg. murder, heresy) 2: the sinner must have full knowledge of the sinful character of the act; in other words, he must know this act violates God’s law. 3: the sinner must give full consent of the will, meaning that he has re ected on doing the action and deliberately wants to do it ✤ Mortal sins cannot be forgiven fi.. fl e  The Development of Purgatory ✤ Of cially declared doctrine by Pope Innocent IV in 127 ✤ The Sale of Indulgences ✤ Time in purgatory could be limited through prayer or charitable works; or you could pay someone to do these works for you fi 4  The Divine Comedy 1300-1321 c.e. ✤ Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 c.e.) native of Florenc ✤ exiled after political disput ✤ Pope Boniface VIII: Dante places him in the 8th Circle of Hell for Frau ✤ His Guides ✤ Virgil: 1st century Greek poet, author of the Aeneid ✤ Beatrice Portinari: the love of Dante’s life, although they never had a romantic relationship d : e e.  The Gates of Hell I am the way into the doleful city I am the way into eternal grief, I am the way to a forsaken race Justice it was that moved my great creator Divine omnipotence created me and highest wisdom joined with primal love Before me nothing but eternal thing were made, and I shall last eternally Abandon every hope, all you who enter (Canto III).. , , s.. ;  Limbo: The First Circle of Hell “Now you should know before we go on farther, they have not sinned. But their great worth alone was not enough, for they did not know Baptism, which is the gateway to the faith you follow, and if they came before the birth of Christ, they did not worship God the way one should I myself am a member of this group For this defect, and for no other guilt, we here are lost. In this alone we suffer cut off from hope, we live on in desire. (Canto IV). ” : ;  Lust The Second Circle of Hell “those who make reason slave to appetite “I came to a place where no light shone at all, bellowing like the sea racked by tempest, when warring winds attack it from both sides The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blasts it whirls them, lashing them wit punishment” (Canto V). : h ” :  Francesca & Paol The Kiss o  http://www.dantesinferno.com/us/explore Lucifer At the Center of the Eart “in each of his three mouths he crunched a sinner” (Canto XXXIV Judas Brutu Cassiu Highest Wisdom vs. Ignorance (black Divine Omnipotence vs. Impotence (yellow Primal Love vs. Hatred (red s s ) : h ) ) )