The Persistence of Purgatory (Paperback)

Introduction: Testing claims to grace: the intensification of time; 1. Silent anguish: distinguishing the cure for soul-loss from the disease; 2. Purgatory as a way of life: time as the essence of the soul; 3. The modern self emerges: Baxter, Locke and the prospect of heaven; 4. Locke, reason and the soul; 5. The American purgatory and the state; 6. Protestants and Catholics in the American purgatory; 7. Charles Dickens in the American purgatory: the eternal foreground; Epilogue.