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I wanted to write to you and tell you what a difference your videos have made in my spiritual life. The Eucharistic Miracles were not something I was even remotely familiar with before I witnessed them on your video. Your video on Saint Michael in the Gargano region, prompted me (I am very much devoted to him) to visit that region with my husband and three children some five years ago. The trip and the surrounding area were so breathtakingly beautiful and serene; it is definitely...

In After Lives, British scholar John Casey provides a rich historical and philosophical exploration of the world beyond, from the ancient Egyptians to St. Thomas Aquinas, from Martin Luther to modern Mormons. In a lively, wide-ranging discussion, he examines such topics as predestination, purgatory, Spiritualism, the Rapture, Armageddon and current Muslim apocalyptics, as well as the impact of such influences as the New Testament, St. Augustine, Dante, and the Second Vatican Council. Ideas of heaven...

Product Description: One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immorality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our conduct in life. In After Lives, British scholar John Casey provides a rich historical and philosophical...

Pages: 480, Hardcover, Oxford University Press, USA

The introduction describes the place of these works in medieval literature and art. It provides a helpful resource for studying penitential literature, Last Judgment iconography, the development of medieval concepts of purgatory, indulgences and sin, and the mystical and spiritual traditions.