The question of the intermedium between death and the universal fulfilment caused many difficulties in the history of the christian theology. This paradoxical situation found its confirmation in the bull Benedictus Deus of 1336. After a long period of consensus the subject was considered anew by the protestant theology at the beginning of 20th century. By negation of the possibility of the existence of anima separata as well as reflecting on the question of temporality after death this theology eliminated the state of a certain eschatological provisionality. The catholic theology took up the topic at the end of the 1950. In the context of the discussion on the nature of soul and on the notion of time L. Boros presented in 1962 an original solution: the resurrection in death as the answer to the anthropological problem in eschatology. The book shows the main directions of the debate with a particular focus on publications in German because theologians of that area are for many others a point of reference in this regard. The publications in Italian were also of special interest as the discussion found a vivid reflection there. Besides, the positions of numerous other theologians have been included, most of them from Spain and France.