The Soul Sleepers

"A new and 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. Bryan Ball book challenges the traditional doctrine of the soul's innate immortality. Having previously written on English eschatological thought, he 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" and "A Great Expectation: Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1660"."

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Language - English

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B. W. Ball

Bryan W. Ball

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ISBN - 9780227172605

Dimensions - 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm

Page Count - 236