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49741 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 741 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… AGAINST, SPIRITUALISM APPEAR THROUGHOUT LATTER HALF OF CENTURY 28 654 Hastings, H. L. 1853-65 U.S. Adv. Christian Author—ed. (The Christian) Immort. conditional …

49742 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

9. Spiritualism, starting crudely just before the middle of the century assumes new and appealing forms, and comes to exert an increasing influence in the …

49743 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 754.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the spiritual principle in the universe, not the immortality of each individual soul. Plato seems to have accepted that result, for in the Laws, where we find …

49744 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 758.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… fine spiritual form.... The doctrine of the Lutheran Church knows nothing about such an intermediate state. There is not one word about it in Luther’s Catechism …

49745 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 783.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… separate spiritual worlds.” Then comes this important statement on the “Eros” penetration into Christianity:3) Anders Nygi en, Agape and Eros (tr. by Philip S …

49746 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 787.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“Thus, in Origen, primitive Christian eschatology is replaced by a spiritualizing evolutionary process.” 23) Ibid., p. 386.

49747 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 790.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Deploring the widespread acceptance of Spiritualism as “depressing,” the bishop places upon Platonism responsibility for the popular belief in Innate Immortality:

49748 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 792.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of spiritual life.” Eliminating these, we are faced with “two remaining alternatives”—“pessimism,” or the “hope of everlasting life with God.” There is little solace …

49749 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 792.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… -a spiritual entity persisting without a body, with death as the “escape” of the soul from its body prison. He stresses, instead, the Biblical necessity of the …

49750 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 793.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… purely spiritual immortality, without a body of any kind. Wise men regarded the body as a tomb in which the living spirit lay buried.... Death was the imprisoned …

49751 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 794.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… safeguarded spirituality, but endangered personal identity. The Jewish view safeguarded identity, but endangered spirituality. Paul’s view preserves …

49752 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 814.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… a spiritual as well as physical aspect.

49753 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 814.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… of spiritual bondage.” 45) Nathaniel Micklem, The Doctrine of Our Redemption (Am. ed., 1948), pp. 78, 79.

49754 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 820.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… for spiritual life, but life itself we have not; God must give it us, and this gift is a miracle of creative power ( 2 Corinthians 4:6 ).” 64) Ibid., p. 57 (Italics supplied …

49755 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 820.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and spiritual death.” 65) Ibid., p. 60.

49756 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 828.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… and spiritual elements of our nature... The Bible avoids both extremes and consistently treats man as a ‘body-soul’; not a soul in a body but a soul so much at one …

49757 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 833.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… higher, spiritual self issuing from the world of divine infinity, and a lower, sensual, and finite self.” The first, while in this life, is “confined in the prison …

49758 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 835 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

5. UNEQUIVOCALLY OPPOSED TO SPIRITUALISM’S FANTASIES

49759 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 835.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Aulen next touches on Romanism’s system of “merits” and Spiritualism’s attempts at communication:

49760 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 836.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… against Spiritualism’s proclivities in these explicit words: “Since Christian faith must oppose all such Roman conceptions which are based upon the impure …