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Were its fires real or figurative? Diana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking historical exploration of spatial and material concepts of purgatory, beginning with scholastic theologians William of Auvergne and Thomas Aquinas, who wrote about the location of purgatory and questioned whether its torments were physical or solely spiritual.

In the same period, writers of devotional literature located purgatory within the earth, near hell, and even in Ireland. In the early modern era, a counter-movement of theologians downplayed purgatory's spatial dimensions, preferring to depict it in abstract terms--a view strengthened during the French Enlightenment, when references to purgatory as a terrestrial location or a place of real fire were ridiculed by anti-Catholic polemicists and discouraged by the Church.

The debate surrounding purgatory's materiality has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place.

Heaven Can Wait provides crucial insight into the theological problem of purgatory's materiality or lack thereof over the past seven hundred years. Diana Walsh Pasulka earned her B. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and has published on the subject of conceptions of the afterlife and Catholic history.

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Create Widget. About R. Also by This Author. Also by This Publisher. Jesus, on the other hand, perceived that it was a symptom of his greed. It suggests that sometimes our prayers are marked by what might be described as a kind of atheism. We are no more interested in God than we might be in the clerk at the counter who hands us our merchandise.

The important thing for us is the answer. Not the one who grants our request. In his book Beginning to Pray , Anthony Bloom reminds us that the intensity of our praying is not necessarily evidence of devotion. He asks us to think of the warmth and depth of our prayer when it concerns someone we love or something that matters to our lives.

It simply means that the subject matter of your prayer matters to you. I am not saying that our requests are trivial or even necessarily selfish. I suspect that for this man in the crowd, receiving his inheritance was not trivial at all. It was a very big thing. Perhaps he was depending on it.

But sometimes the things we are waiting for from God grow so large in our estimation that they stand between us and God. They may even become more important to us than God Himself. He does not treat everyone the same. It may seem to us that God bestows answers too quickly on those who have ignored Him. They are excited about getting an answer to their prayer. It is as if they have discovered a world that they did not know existed, and in a way, they have. We are excited with them, at first.

But after a while, there is something about their praise reports that may irk us. The book hooks you from page one and you are always kept wondering what will happen next. I was in tears by the time the end of the book rolled around. Cally Taylor did an amazing job with this book. I believe this is her debut book and it is just wonderful.

Nov 09, Silver Thistle rated it it was amazing Shelves: romance , ghosts. I loved it so much! Chick Lit-esque, this one has ghostly going's on and despite the fact that the leading lady dies within the first few pages it's really funny.

I especially loved the other characters. Stinky Brian was my favourite. He's got a rug in his room that smells like boiled cabbage and a Thomas the Tank engine duvet cover. Loved him! Anyway, as mentioned Tess dies on the eve of her wedding and is given a choice - go straight to heaven or go back down to earth and become a ghos I loved it so much!

Anyway, as mentioned Tess dies on the eve of her wedding and is given a choice - go straight to heaven or go back down to earth and become a ghost so she can hang around her husband-to-be Dan. She chooses to become a ghost so needs to pass her 'task' first and she's got 21 days to do it in. She shares a grotty bedsit in London with a couple of other Wannabe ghosts who also have their own 'tasks' to complete and it's impossible to not get dragged in to their respective dilemma's and feel for them.

The characters are so well written that I pictured them clearly in my mind and couldn't put the book down until I knew how their stories ended.

I really felt like I knew them. Trainspotter Brian has his work cut out for him with his task and has some fantastically funny moments trying to solve it. Damaged Claire's has attitude and has erected a shield of bitchiness around herself to mask how vulnerable she really is I felt really sorry for her.

The IT guys are suitably geeky and it's like watching an episode of 'The IT crowd' when they get going the boss especially reminds me of the IT crowd boss.

Even the secondary characters are fleshed out and Sandwich Sally is like a little powerpuff girl - cuteness and sass all rolled into one. Love them all. The only bit I wasn't overly fond of was the last chapter. I didn't care for how it ended. Really, given that this is chick lit it was the only way it could have ended but that doesn't mean I like it.

The options were probably limited and another ending would have given a whole different feel to the book but I still wasn't keen on that last chapter. That said though, I wish this was a series so that I could read more about other wannabe ghosts. I'd auto buy all the others if it was. I might even go back to this one for a re-read some time.

I'd definitely LOVE to see this made into a movie!! Mar 27, Estelle rated it liked it. I was looking for a light chicklit after reading a very intense book before and chanced upon this book. The idea of the book reminded me of the Ghost Whisperer in someways. It didn't take too long to warm up to the story.

The plot was not particularly surprising, after all this is a chicklit. I always find that in chicklits the best parts are the journey to getting to the ending because let's be honest they are really predictable. The writing was good, i don't have anything against it.

But i thi I was looking for a light chicklit after reading a very intense book before and chanced upon this book. But i think the author's craft to get across the grief of Dan and Lucy is something to be commended on. It made me all fuzzy and warm inside. Lucy's character is reminiscent of Sophie Kinsella's infamous Rebecca in the Shopaholic series. She often finds herself stuck in hilarious and impossible situations which made me burst out in laughter.

I find Lucy to be very endearing and empathise with her situation. All in all, i thought that this book is a fun and quick read that will tickle your funny bone. I enjoyed it a lot but i didn't think it was mind blowing. Mar 05, Fiona rated it really liked it.

Wonderful tale that made me feel sad yet had the ability to make me laugh most of the way through the book. Lucy and Dan are planning their happy ever after but unfortunately the eve before their wedding Lucy has an accident resulting in her death. Waking up in Limbo she is told she has the choice of going straight to heaven or completing a task which will giver her the option of becoming a ghost and remaining in this world.

As her last words to Dan were not pretty ones she opts to do the task an Wonderful tale that made me feel sad yet had the ability to make me laugh most of the way through the book.

As her last words to Dan were not pretty ones she opts to do the task and stay beside Dan forever. Moving into her new home in the House of Wannabe Ghosts she meets smelly Brian the train spotter and Clare the Goth with a bad temper both attempting to fulfil their own tasks. Full of enthusiasm she cannot believe her task is to find true love for the most bring man in the Universe She has 21 days in order to achieve this Fantastic story that follows love and friendship both in the mortal and spiritual plains, first time reading this author and what a joy it was!

Dec 27, JG rated it liked it. Typical, typical read! I guess this was fine. Sorry, this book was so Something you read just to past time and when you finished reading, well you just kinda pasted is that a word?

This is a type of book where you read and then discard. You forget about it after a day and well, just that. It was so like the other chick-lit out there. The characters, the plot, the dialogue does not stand out. There is no spark and no life in the pages. What a disappoinment. WHy ca Typical, typical read! WHy can't i find a good chick-lit book these days?

Sep 12, Milena Mimi added it. I really enjoy reading it. This is my first book of Cally Taylor that I read, but I will definitely read her others work. Firstly I love the style of writing, and the story line especially. There was a lot of happiness, sadness, tears, even laugh moments, while I was reading it. I also like the way she expressed the relationship between roommates, relationship between Lucy and Dan, and between Lucy and Archie.

Very emotional and funny story. I recommend everyone. Mar 08, Mary rated it it was amazing. Dec 05, Tamsyn Murray rated it it was amazing. A fabulous book which kept me awake long after I should have been in the land of Nod. In Lucy Brown, Cally Taylor has created the kind of character we can all relate to and I was willing Lucy on all the way to the breath-taking end.