ABSTRACT
Kevin Timpe has argued that limbo, like Purgatory, could be an interim state—a state that is nobody’s final destination. Its temporary inhabitants, those individuals that did not, through premature death or disability, have an opportunity to be reconciled to God in this present life are, in Timpe’s limbo, presented with an opportunity to do so. In this chapter, I develop Timpe’s view further. Given the parameters he sets out, I argue that death and procreation are also possible there, and with them, the possibility of an unending series of limbos. Whilst this might appear troubling for Timpe’s argument, I suggest this view has an interesting upshot for the joy of the saints in heaven, namely, that even if their post-beatific joy cannot grow intensively, the continued growth in their number might result in an ever-growing extensive increase in their joy.
