The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

CHAPTER SIX: Vehement Calvinist Positions and Anglican Opposites Develop

It is necessary in this chapter to digress long enough to note the origin of the bitter and unrelenting sixteenth-century attack on soul sleep that arrested the trend toward a reviving Conditionalism, which opposition originated with the brilliant John Calvin of Geneva. The background facts must be grasped in order to understand the unprecedented conflict that developed in Protestant ranks over this vital question, for it was this that started an internecine battle of pens that has persisted ever since. We will then turn to contrasting Anglican developments that have molded her position of moderation for four hundred years. CFF2 112.1