DOCTRINAL CHART
ON SOUL, HELL AND TRINITY |
Date |
Name |
View |
?-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. |