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Od satysfaktoryjnego do uświęcającego modelu czyśćca. Perspektywa ekumeniczna

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Christian eschatology is a relatively neglected area within the ecumenical debate. This may indicate that the issues in this area do not have such a destructive impact on the interconfessional relations as the questions of soteriology and ecclesiology. At the same time it is known that the issue of indulgences for the dead was the cause of the sixteenth-century dispute within the Church over the doctrine of justification. The consensus on the aforementioned doctrine, reached in 1999, put an end to this chapter. However, the declaration requires the reception of both confessions in the Church doctrine, which involves expressing the content of faith in a language understood in other theological traditions. A case in point is the recent development of the Doctrine of Purgatory. In Catholic teaching, the evolution of language in the description of this reality has been observed whereas the Protestants are known to have made some attempts at the adaptation of that doctrine to their own model of theology. The common denominator for both traditions could be the sanctifying model of Purgatory. The aim of the article is to present the main theological premises and the content of that model against the background of non-theological development conditions of the doctrine of Purgatory and its rejection by the Reformation.