The Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls; A Dialogue on Conscience

By Thomas More, S Thomas More, D O'Connor

Book Overview

In The Four Last Things, More prescribes frequent meditation on Death, Judgment, Pain and Joy in order to combat the spiritual diseases of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.The Supplication of Souls is More's vigorous, humorous, and artful defense of one of the flashpoints of the Reformation: the Catholic dogma of Purgatory. It is his devastating response to a defamatory political tract that claimed that the greed and corruption of English clergymen stemmed from their insistence on being paid to pray for the dead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889334650
• ISBN13: 9781889334653
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Scepter Publishers
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.