Thursday 17 October 2013

Unbaptized Infants

Demonstrate knowledge of the broad history of Christian thought concerning either infants by summarizing the arguments presented in the class reading
The author traces the history of Catholic doctrine about the fate of
infants who die unbaptized: (1) from Augustine’s teaching that they
are condemned to hell where they suffer “the least of its pains”; (2) to
the medieval doctrine of Limbo as the state in which those Infants,
although excluded from the vision of God, enjoy a natural happiness;
(3) to the consoling words that John Paul II, in Evangelium vitae,
addressed to a woman who had caused her child to be aborted, that
when she had repented and was reconciled to God, she could ask
forgiveness from her child who was now “living in the Lord.
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