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028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd _b: 4794/23, Ansari Road, DaryaGanj, New Delhi _c: TB2438 _d: 19/10/2026
082			_a115 FEN
100			_aFenn, Richard K.
245			_aThe Persistence of purgatory _c/ Richard K. Fenn.
260			_a, New York _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 1995.
300			_aviii, 206p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2967
520			_aWhy does Western civilization take time so seriously? While various scholars have traced the intensification of time in the West either to the Enlightenment or to the Protestant Ethic, the author traces Western attitudes toward time back to the doctrine and myth of Purgatory. As popular and theological understandings of Purgatory became increasingly secularized, the lifespan of the individual became correspondingly purgatorial. No time could be wasted. The author demonstrates the impact of Purgatory on the preaching of Richard Baxter and William Channing, but he also argues that John Locke's views can only be understood when placed within the context of a belief in Purgatory and the life everlasting. For observers such as Charles Dickens, America itself seemed to be a purgatorial wasteland full of lost and melancholy souls: a place where time is always of the essence.
650			_aPurgatory
650			_aPersistence of Purgatory
650			_aRichard K Fenn
700			_aRichard K Fenn.
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