Purgatory

Key Passages

• 2 Samuel 12:13-16
• 2 Maccabees 12:43-46
• Wisdom 3:1-7
• Isaiah 66:15-16
• Daniel 12:2
• Daniel 12:10
• Zechariah 13:9
• Malachi 3:2-3
• Matthew 5:26
• Matthew 12:32
• Luke 12:47-48
• Luke 12:58-59
• Luke 16:19-31
• 1 Corinthians 3:13-15
• 2 Timothy 1:16-18
• Hebrews 2:27-28
• Hebrews 12:14
• Hebrews 12:22-23
• Hebrews 12:29
• 1 Peter 3:16-19
• 1 Peter 4:6
• Revelation 21:10, 27

Introductory

• Purgatory | The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4
• Souls in Purgatory | The Dream of Gerontius
• Purgatory | The Moody Handbook of Theology
• Purgatory | The Moody Handbook of Theology, Revised and Expanded
• Afterlife | The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality
• Purgatory | The New Dictionary of Theology
• Purgatory by Kaufmann Kohler | Jewish Encyclopedia
• The Great Divorce: A Dream | fictionalized treatment by C.S. Lewis

Jewish resources

• Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 2:6, II.17.N | The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary
• Babylonian Talmud Rosh Hashshanah 16B | The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary

Early Church Fathers resources

• The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies 3, 6 | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume VIII
• City of God 21.13 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume II
• The Enchiridion 69 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume III

Medieval resources

Theology

• Purgatory | Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
• Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell | Death and Afterlife: A Theological Introduction
• Of the Modes of Supplementing Satisfaction – viz. Indulgences and Purgatory | Institutes of the Christian Religion
• The Final Purification, or Purgatory | Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Decree Touching Purgatory | The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
• How many are the Places in which Souls, placed out of the Reach of Bliss, are detained after Death | The Catechism of the Council of Trent
• The Purgatory | Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Spirituality

• Purgation and Purgatory; The Spiritual Dialogue | Catherine of Genoa

Art

• The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio and The Paradiso | by Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio and The Paradiso | by Dante Alighieri (Harvard Classics edition)
• Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt

Web Links

• Wikipedia: Purgatory
• Purgatory and 1 Cor. 3:15 | Matt Slick, CARM
• Freedom, Heaven, and Purgatory | Ian Spencer
• Purgatory? Where’s That in the Bible? | Mark Shea
• Purgatory | Orthodox Wiki
• Life after death… Mysteries beyond the grave | Fr. Thomas Hopko (Orthodox)
• What happens after a person dies? | United Methodist Church
• Purgatory | Catholic Bible 101
• Purgatory – Biblical or Not | Gary Nystrom
• Arguments Against Purgatory Considered | Kevin Tierney
• Purgatory | fish eaters