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James Wood: Afterlives, 14 April 2011
After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
by John Casey.
Oxford, 468 pp., £22.50, January 2010,978 0 19 509295 0 Show More
by John Casey.
Oxford, 468 pp., £22.50, January 2010,
“... denunciations. He happily lays into Augustine and Calvin (and folds the cheerless Cardinal Newman into the mix). As he rightly complains, the very idea of depravity ‘depends on our being able to think of some actions and motives as being better than others’. We know that there are small sins and large sins, but if we acknowledge this for practical ... ”