Will Plato Go To Heaven?
The Guardian reports that 30 leading Catholic thealogians are discussing a Vatican document that would remove Limbo from church teachings.
“It is an odd place. The inhabitants include Plato, Moses, Abraham and lots of babies. Now after more than 700 years of shadowy existence, limbo faces closure. The world’s 30 leading Roman Catholic theologians were meeting behind closed doors in the Vatican yesterday to discuss a document which would sweep the concept out of the church’s teaching. Limbo was concocted in the 13th century as a solution to the theological conundrum of what happened to babies who died before they were christened.”
So is it heaven or hell for these souls? These decisions haven’t been made. In the meantime those pre-Christian pagan thinkers so admired by later Christians remain in a place of “theological uncertainty”.
One response so far
Well, its not really a great revelation. All they’re doing is catching up with the rest of Christianity