Purgatory: Good News for Most of Us | Professor Michael Root

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🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Michael Root is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology). He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification. Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission. He served on the drafting teams that produced the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

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0:28.5	Okay, as Seth said, this is coming back for me. I'm from Norfolk. I'm a proud 1969 graduate
0:34.6	of Great Bridge High School. Anybody here from Great Bridge?
0:38.5	Nobody.
0:40.0	So, right, somebody from Great Bridge.
0:40.3	All right.
0:42.2	So this is coming back.
0:46.7	My father played football in the late 1930s for the predecessor of O'DU,
0:49.0	the Norfolk Division of William and Mary.
1:01.0	And my brother has found out that my grandfather spent 60 days in the Norfolk County Jail in the early 1920s for selling bootleg whiskey. So that's doing various things in the neighborhood. So this topic I'm talking about tonight is purgatory. The original title, we're going to assess
1:06.1	the biblical issues. And how I think, at least in Catholic teaching is understood to be good
1:11.7	news for us. At times in Christian history, purgatory has been a quite central topic.
1:18.6	Got bootlegging on the mind. But often it's depicted in all kinds of odd ways. What I want to do
1:26.4	is to a certain degree tonight, give an
1:28.3	apologia, for at least the concept of purgatory, and talk a bit about how it developed.
1:34.3	I'm going to try and do three things. First, I want to talk about how the doctrine of purgatory
1:39.3	developed historically. I want a second, give a description of simply what is Catholic teaching about
1:45.6	purgatory. You may actually be a bit less than you think. And third, say
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