Definition of "beatific vision" [beatific vision]

• The eternal and direct visual perception of God. (noun)

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• "Supernatural religion implies a supernatural end, gratuitously bestowed on man, namely a lively union with God through sanctifying grace, begun and imperfectly attained here, but completed in heaven, where the beatific vision of God will be its eternal reward."
• "The basis for the privilege of the beatific vision enjoyed by the human soul of Christ is its Hypostatic Union with the"
• "Petavius (De Incarnatione, I, xii, c. 4) maintains that there is no controversy among theologians, or even among Christians, as to the fact that the soul of Jesus Christ was endowed with the beatific vision (see Heaven) from the beginning of its existence."