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Beatific Vision

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Benedict XII

In Benedict XII
…over the question of the Beatific Vision, a vision of God promised to the redeemed. John had preached in several sermons that this vision would be granted only after Judgment Day. Benedict ended the dispute by issuing a bull, Benedictus Deus (1336), in which he formulated the church’s teaching that…
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John XXII

In John XXII
…blessed in the afterlife (the Beatific Vision), which he expressed in four sermons delivered in the winter of 1331–32. Most theologians held that the saints in heaven were immediately admitted to a full vision of the Godhead. John disagreed, holding that the fullness of the Beatific Vision would be delayed…
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