Professor Leon Kass posited that humans are physical beings and that our soul emerges as we (gain ability to) interact with ...

Instead it is a state of cleansing and purification for souls destined for heaven. Also Purgatory is not a means to earn our way to heaven, but a gift from God preparing us to see Him face to face.

A. The rewards or punishments appointed for men's souls after the Particular Judgment are Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. Q. 1379. What is Hell? A. Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned ...

Some Catholics think that Heaven, Purgatory and Hell are physical places, whereas others consider them more like ‘states’. For example, a soul in Heaven has achieved the state of eternal union ...

[It will be] the Day when no soul shall have power [to do] aught [ie anything] for another Heaven is described in the Qur’an as a beautiful garden. Jannah is Paradise, where those who have been ...