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The Soul Sleepers - Christian Mortalism from Wycliffe to Priestley (Paperback, New)
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The Soul Sleepers - Christian Mortalism from Wycliffe to Priestley (Paperback, New)
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A new comprehensive study of the rise and development of Christian
Mortalism, also known as Conditional Immortality or Soul Sleep in
England during the Reformation and Post-Reformation periods. The
Author traces the origins of the belief in Continental Reformation
thought, and then in the writings of Wycliffe and Tyndale, and its
growth and development in the writings of many other advocates,
including Hobbes, Overton, Milton, Locke, Edmund Law, John Biddle,
Peter Peckard, Francis Blackburne, among many others, concluding
with the views of Joseph Priestley. In the context of being a
historical study, this book challenges the traditional doctrine of
the soul's innate immortality. Having previously written on English
eschatological thought, Bryan Ball demonstrates that this
alternative view of man's essential nature and ultimate destiny was
held across a wide theological spectrum in English thought for at
least three centuries. While dealing with a subject that is at
times difficult, the book has been written intentionally in a
readable style, and will appeal to a wider audience then merely
academics. The book provides important background information to
the growing interest in the mortalist point of view in contemporary
theological and historical circles. Bryan W Ball was Head of the
Religious Studies Department at Newbold College, England, and
Principal of Avondale College, Australia. Other books by Dr Ball
include: 'The English Connection. The Puritan Roots of Seventh-day
Adventist Belief' 'Seventh-Day Men: Sabbatarians and Sabbatarianism
in England and Wales, 1600-1800' 'A Great Expectation:
Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1660'.
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