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1561 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 112.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… law, Calvin nevertheless studied Biblical Greek, which further confirmed him in believing the doctrines of the Protestant faith to be true. So he embraced …
1562 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 113 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Picture 1: Calvin, Renato Left: John Calvin (d. 1564), Father of French Protestantism—Foremost Reformation Foe of “Soul Sleep” Postulate. Right: Camillo Renato (d. 1572), Italian Spiritual Franciscan—Soul Sleeps Until Resurrection. Page 113
1563 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 113.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… suspicion, Calvin soon had to flee to Switzerland to escape persecution, living at first as a fugitive. It was during this period that he wrote his epochal …
1564 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 113.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Calvin, it should here be added, was never ordained by either Protestants or Catholics, believing himself called of God and needing no ordination. And he was …
1565 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 114.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Calvin’s theology was the absolute sovereignty of God, coupled with the duty of man to submit implicitly to its sway. He held that God has from all eternity …
1566 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 114.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… 1536, Calvin was urged to stay, and was elected preacher and professor of theology. He accordingly prepared a Confession of Faith, a catechism, and an integrated …
1567 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 114.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… to Calvin to return. So in 1541 he again entered Geneva. There he spent the remainder of his life—for thirty years preaching in St. Peter’s Cathedral and seeking …
1568 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 115.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Calvin’s passion was to set up a disciplined community with the church’s commission asserting itself in state affairs and all committed to God in solemn …
1569 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 115.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… offenses—Calvin coupled the Mosaic code and the theocratic theory. Rome’s burning of the innocent was no reason, he held, why Protestants should spare the …
1570 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 115.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… was Calvin’s most tragic deed. And Conditionalism, it is to be remembered, was a definite factor in his condemnation.3) Schaff, op. cit.
1571 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 116.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… communion, Calvin was of all the Protestant Reformers the foremost opposer of the doctrine of Conditional Immortality. And with it he was the most ardent …
1572 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 116 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
III. Historical Setting of Calvin’s Psychopannychia
1573 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 116.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… John Calvin began to “figure” in the struggle. This came about by his issuing, as noted, his earliest work, Psychopannychia against the sleep of souls, printed …
1574 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 116.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Blackburne, Calvin’s position promoted the profiteering, whereas Luther’s teaching, “consigning all the dead to a state of rest and sleep, left no pretence …
1575 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 117.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… by Calvin now came into the open. Blackburne depicts Calvin’s treatise as “hot, furious, and abusive.” The Genevan calls the advocates of soul sleep “Hypnologists …
1576 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 117.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… .” But Calvin charges that soul sleepers “pay no regard to the Scriptures.” And, according to Blackburne, Calvin’s treatise furnished all later “orators and disputants …
1577 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 117.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that Calvin’s own commentaries, composed in his mature years, contradict some of the “foolish interpretations of many scriptures” he had employed in the …
1578 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 118.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Calvin’s militant anti-soul-sleep “tractate,” with its blistering introductory denunciations. It is this treatise that is credited with checking the …
1579 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 118.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… John Calvin, in John Calvin, Tracts and Treatises in Defense of the Reformed Faith, vol. 1, pp. lvii-cxxxviii.
1580 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 118.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . 12) Calvin, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 413.