Eschatology and the After Life
Is there any possibility of repentance after death?
Q1368 · The Gift of Death and the Resurrected Life in Christ
How is it possible for a spirit in Hades to repent, when it has separated from the body and there is no possibility of declaring life to God and men? In the world, the body participates with the soul in faith, and they walk together in the Lord. So, the two also receive what they deserve together, whether entry into heaven, or deprivation of the vision of God.
1175 St. Cyprian of Carthage, Treatise 7: On the Mortality 2 (ANF 5:469) amended.
1176 See St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Great Catechism 8–9, 16–17, 25–26, 28, 32 (NPNF II/5).
1177 St. Cassian, Institutes 5.41.