DOCTRINAL CHART
ON SOUL, HELL AND TRINITY

Date

Name

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?-107

Ignatius

No Trinity.

100-165

Justin Martyr,
Samaria,
Palestine

Son subordinate to Father.
Resurrection at Pre-Millennial 2nd advent.

130-202

Irenaeus,
Bishop of Lyons, France

No trinity.
1st Resurrection after Antichrist and after 2nd advent.

160-240

Tertullian,
Carthage,
N. Africa

Son not eternal.
Resurrection at 2 nd advent, not at death.

185-254

Origen,
Alexandria,
Egypt

Son is “surpassed by the God of the universe.”

1324-1384

John Wyclif,
England,
Oxford University

Death is an unconscious sleep until resurrection.
Against transubstantiation, masses for soul, indulgences.
Immortality received at resurrection.
Refused to base teaching on a parable.
No Eternal Torment or Purgatory.

1483-1546

Martin Luther,
Germany,
Wittenberg University

“Immortal Soul” concept derived.
from “Roman Dunghill of decretals.”
Death is “Soul Sleep.”

1500-

Anti-Trinitarian
Anabaptists

No Trinity.
No Hell Fire.
Soul sleeps in death.
Eternal life only in Christ at resurrection.

1490-1536

William Tyndale,
England

Souls not in Heaven, Hell or Purgatory.
Saints in heaven before 2nd Advent destroys resurrection doctrine.

1500-1570

Adam Pastor,
Dutch
Anabaptist

No Trinity.

1509-1553

Michael Servetus,
Lawyer,
Spain

Soul mortal; immortality only in Christ at resurrection.
No Trinity.
No infant baptism.
Burned at stake with books by Calvin for Arian view.

1571

Anglican Church,
Britain

42 articles of faith reduced to 39; dropped those on immortal soul and eternal torment.
Explains why so many prominent Anglicans publicly championed the Conditionalist position [at least 4
Archbishops].

1599-1678

Dr. Nathaniel Holmes,
England,
Oxford, Exeter
BA,MA,BD,DD, Heb. Scholar

Pre-Millennialist .
1641–The Resurrection Revealed
–Literal resurrection of sleeping saints & change of living saints at 2nd advent.

1615-1662

John Biddle,
England,
Oxford

No Trinity.
Died after ten years in prison for beliefs.

1608-1674

John Milton,
England

No trinity.

1622-1705

Henry Clayton,
Lawyer,
England,
Oxford

Author of 12 books on Conditionalism.

1642-1727

Sir Isaac Newton,

England

No Trinity.

1632-1704

John Locke,
England,
Oxford

No Trinity.
Wicked not live forever. Eternal life rests on promises of God. Death is ceasing to be.

1630-1694

Archbishop of Canterbury,
John Tillotson,
England,
Cambridge

Innate immortality assumed, not revealed.

1656-1725

William Coward,
England,
Oxford, MA, MD

Soul mortal. Man receives immortal life at resurrection. Immortal soul from heathen philosophies.

1667-1752

Prof. Wm. Whiston,
England,
Cambridge

Wicked utterly consumed.
Eternal life for righteous only.
[Author of 50 works. Gk. Scholar.]

1674-1748

Dr. Isaac Watts,
England,
Aberdeen & Edinburgh University

Death includes destruction of soul.
[Latin at 4 yrs; Gk at 8; Fr at 11; Heb at 13. Wrote 52 textbooks. Hymn Writer.]

1698-1799

W Warburton,
Bishop of Gloucester

Challenged proponents of everlasting punishment.
[English Prelate]

1703-1787

Edmund Law,
Anglican Bishop, DD,
Cambridge,
Prof of Stafford

Life not inherent but gift through Christ.
Death a sleep, oblivion.
Resurrection the hope of immortality.

1704-1787

Francis Blackburne,
Cleveland,
Cambridge

Immortality only through resurrection.
[Anglican Archdeacon.]

1714-1796

Samuel Bourn,
Scotland,
Glasgow University

Punishment of Wicked “total extinction.”

1718-1797

Dr. Peter Pecard,
Cambridge Professor,
Oxford

Man mortal.
Immortality solely through Christ.
[Anglican Clergyman.]

1733-1804

Joseph Priestley,
Scientist
U.S.

Death-state of insensibility.
Future based on resurrection.
Soul sleep in Bible.

1747-1836

Bishop Wm. White,
Protestant Episc. Church,
U.S.

Mortality inherited by all from Adam.

1787-1863

Archbishop Rich. Whatley,
DD, Anglican Archbishop
Dublin

Jesus source of immortality.
Death sleep.
Wicked destroyed.

1810-1890

Clement Moore Butler,
DD, Rector Trinity College,
Chaplain of US Senate in 1849

Firm Conditionalist.
1864 Prof. of Eccles. History of Divinity Sch of Protestant Episcopal Ch of Philadelphia.

1823-1904

Dr. J.J. Stewart Perowne,
Anglican Bishop
England

[Heb. & Gk. Scholar]
Conditionalist.

1825-1901

Bishop B. F. Westcott,
DD, DCL, Prof. at Cambridge,
Canon of Westminster

Innate Immortality “wholly insufficient.”
[Author of Westcott and Hort, critical edition of Gk. N.T.]

1828-1910

J. B. Rotherham
England, Wales,
Scotland

Conditionalist.
[Heb. & Gk. Scholar; Rotherham Bible translation; Pastor.]

1831-1903

Frederick Wm. Farrar,
Dean of Canterbury,
England

No Eternal Torment.
[Univ. of London, Cambridge, DD, FRS]

1843-1865

Bishop Reginald Courtenay,
Oxford,
England

Conditionalist.