Week 21: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapters 24-25 of Theology and Sanity, “Life after Death” and “The End of the World”—pp. 336-358.

Questions:

1. What are the three “states” we can be in at any given time in our lives/at the end of our lives? (p. 336)
2. Why does Sheed speak of the “formidable finality of death”? Why is death final if the soul lives on? (p.335)
   
3. What, according to Sheed, are the two categories that all of our choices are ultimately between? (p. 338)
   
4. Define mortal and venial sin. (p. 338)
   
5. Why can’t the soul of someone who is separated from God go to Him after death? Who sends people to hell? How do we know that hell is not a contradiction of God’s love? (p. 340-1).
   
6. What is the cure for self-love that we find in purgatory? (p. 342)
   
7. Define Beatific Vision. (p.343)
   
8. How can the happiness of heaven be total, but not equal, for all? (343-4)
   
9. How can the saints be more with us in heaven than our neighbors on earth? (p.347)
   
10. Who will be saved from worshipping the Anti-Christ? How? (p. 352)
    
11. When will we have our bodies restored to us after death? Why will we have bodies in heaven? (p. 356)

Reflection Questions:

1. Americans seem to be flippant about hell. People will casually condemn someone who cuts them off in traffic or joke about partying with sinners in an infernal after life. But, if we really thought about what hell means, would we ever joke about it or wish it upon our worst enemies?