beatific
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Beatific and terrifying as an archangel, Collin is giving one of the best performances on television right now; she’s TV’s greatest radical mom since Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings on “The Americans.”
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
Far from approaching the Beatific Vision, Huxley "came nearer than he knew to the gates of Hell."
From Time Magazine Archive
Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the Scholastics or passionately by the mystical school of love, expanded St. Augustine's idea of the Beatific Vision, the saints' rapturous and direct communion with God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Beatific Vision is necessary not only to enjoy the very life of heaven, but likewise to enjoy the accidental glory wherewith God perfects the happiness of his elect.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.
The Beatific Vision, which was the essential happiness of the soul before the resurrection, is now the essential happiness of man.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.
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