The Persistence of Purgatory

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Persistence of Purgatory. By Richard K. Fenn. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge Press, 1995. viii + 209 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

In modern Western societies, human beings suffer the tyranny of time. We have to meet deadlines, save time, be on time, and work under its pressure. Yet our time is short, elusive, and we rarely seem to have enough of it. In modernity, the human being is buffeted and squeezed by the orderings of rival times: business, social, fiscal, academic calendars; the time to remember a birthday or write a review. This plight-this "social construction" of ...

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