Purgatory - in Christianity

In Christianity

Some churches, typically those with a more "Catholic" structure, recognize the doctrine of Purgatory, while many Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches reject it, the former on the basis of their own sola scriptura doctrine, combined with their exclusion of 2 Maccabees from the Bible.

Read more about this topic:  Purgatory

Famous quotes containing the word christianity:

    “With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)

    “I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)