{"id":95679,"date":"2025-10-30T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95679"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:57:55","slug":"looking-beyond-local-faith-communities-weigh-in-on-their-thoughts-on-the-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_30_2025\/looking-beyond-local-faith-communities-weigh-in-on-their-thoughts-on-the-afterlife","title":{"rendered":"Looking Beyond: Local Faith Communities Weigh in on Their Thoughts on the Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Feldmeier, the Murray\/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies, discusses the Christian teaching of heaven as that of spending eternity in communion with God and all who have been saved.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: <\/b><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledoblade.com%2Fnews%2Freligion%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2Flooking-beyond-local-faith-communities-weigh-in-on-their-thoughts-on-the-afterli%2Fstories%2F20251030005&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7Cb847fbd26a874cab81b208de17ce1d64%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C638974371827843595%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CoPMWxXC29huYVA0w44Q0%2BPziJ%2BLDjC2Fifc73djZDs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"9d821c30-5239-404a-b061-2f69c062a168\">Looking Beyond: Local Faith Communities Weigh in on Their Thoughts on the Afterlife<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Feldmeier, the Murray\/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies, discusses the Christian teaching of heaven as that of spending eternity in communion with God and all who have been saved.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95680,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95679\/revisions\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}