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It almost seems to me that there is a variety of understanding about these Toll Houses in Orthodoxy. What about Catholicism? What is their stance about them?
orthodoxwiki.org/Aerial_Toll-Houses
The teaching of Aerial Toll-Houses regards the soul’s journey after its departure from the body, and is related to the particular judgment. In its most general form, it refers to the idea that after death, the demons attempt to find a basis for taking the soul to Hades, while the angels and the prayers of the living defend the soul if it can be defended. Whether the soul is finally seized by the demons, or taken to heaven depends on the state of the soul at death. In either case, the soul then experiences a foretaste of what it can expect after the final judgment. According to Fr. Thomas Hopko, the teaching of the Toll Houses is found in virtually every Father of the Church .[1]
Several contemporary Church figures speak about toll-houses.[11] [12] [13] [14] Secondly, not a single Church Father ever wrote even one sentence expressing doubt about this teaching (which is present in its most general form in the Church since at least fourth century
What is the scriptural basis for this teaching? It seems abundant in the Fathers and tradition. Are Orthodox bound to believe in the Toll Houses in a dogmatic sense?
orthodoxwiki.org/Aerial_Toll-Houses
The teaching of Aerial Toll-Houses regards the soul’s journey after its departure from the body, and is related to the particular judgment. In its most general form, it refers to the idea that after death, the demons attempt to find a basis for taking the soul to Hades, while the angels and the prayers of the living defend the soul if it can be defended. Whether the soul is finally seized by the demons, or taken to heaven depends on the state of the soul at death. In either case, the soul then experiences a foretaste of what it can expect after the final judgment. According to Fr. Thomas Hopko, the teaching of the Toll Houses is found in virtually every Father of the Church .[1]
Several contemporary Church figures speak about toll-houses.[11] [12] [13] [14] Secondly, not a single Church Father ever wrote even one sentence expressing doubt about this teaching (which is present in its most general form in the Church since at least fourth century
What is the scriptural basis for this teaching? It seems abundant in the Fathers and tradition. Are Orthodox bound to believe in the Toll Houses in a dogmatic sense?