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| - | '''Limbo''' is the [[place]] where innocent [[soul]]s [[exist]] [[temporarily]] until they can enter [[heaven]], notably those of the [[saint]]s who died before the advent of Christ (''limbus patruum'') and those of [[unbaptized]] but [[innocent]] [[child]]ren (''limbus infantum''). In common parlance, it refers to any [[in-between]] place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an [[unresolved]] [[status]], [[delay]] or [[deadlock]]. | + | |
| - | ==In Roman Catholic theology== | + | # To [[put off]] until a later time; to [[defer]]. |
| - | In [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] theology, '''Limbo''' (Latin ''limbus'', edge or boundary, referring to the "edge" of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the [[damned]] ([[gehenna]]). [[Medieval theologians]] described the underworld ("[[hell]]", "[[hades]]", "[[infernum]]") as divided into four distinct underworlds: hell of the damned (which a very few of them called gehenna), [[purgatory]], limbo of the fathers, and limbo of infants. | + | |
| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | * [[Hades in Christianity]] | + | |
| - | * [[Heaven]] | + | |
| - | * [[Hell in Christian beliefs]] | + | |
| - | * [[Intermediate state]] | + | |
| - | * [[Sheol]] | + | |
| - | * [[Spirit prison]] | + | |
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