Sentences with phrase «temporal punishment»

This was originally proposed in terms of temporal punishment due to sin.

I understand that they remit temporal punishment due to my forgiven sins, if I die without performing the acts of penance a priest has imposed.

The basic error Joseph Bottum makes is in thinking that there is no level of justice between an entirely temporal punishment and a punishment that fully and perfectly satisfies the universal demand for justice built into the fabric of existence itself.

God forgave David but David still had to suffer the loss of his son as well as other temporal punishments (2 Sam.

[5]-- Principle — The Church also recognized the duration of temporal punishments could be lessened through the involvement of other persons who had pleased God.

Citizens were compelled to report any known «servant of the devil,» under threat of excommunication and temporal punishments.

The Eastern Church believes in sanctification after death, and perhaps the doctrine of purgatory really asserts nothing more; but can Rome ever say that in speaking of it as «temporal punishment,» which the pope may in whole or part remit, it was in error?

Later there is a section on Indulgences (§ 1471 - 79), which reaffirms traditional teaching on satisfactions and eternal versus temporal punishment, linking the latter with Purgatory.

In contrast, the Roman Catholic Council of Trent (1545 — 63) reaffirmed the full medieval system: satisfaction, temporal punishments, Purgatory and indulgences.

Temporal punishment is, however, linked with the idea of purification.

But there remains a «temporal punishment» to pay.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: «An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.»

It may be that varying degrees of penance and temporal punishment are incurred by the degree to which one has offended but the imperfect can never make itself perfect.

That's a traditional Catholic term for the full remission of the «temporal punishment» in the afterlife due to sin.

The theological idea is that by doing good works on earth, or by engaging in pious practices like a pilgrimage, you can help «work off» some of the temporal punishments that may await you after death.