Throughout history Christians have prayed for the dead. This book challenges Protestants who seldom pray for the dead to begin doing so and Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox who pray only for the Christian dead to include the unsaved as well. Gould discusses the meaning of prayer for final consummation of all things growth of the blessed in heaven purification of the imperfect in purgatory and salvation of the unsaved in hell--identifying the necessary conception of the afterlife required by