My favorite college class was a course on conditional immortality in Church history. The professor was a trinitarian but he believed in conditional immortality.
Just as the development of the doctrine of the Trinity can be tracked in Church history, so too can the doctrine of the immortal soul be tracked.
The early Church position on the question was conditional immortality. It gradually shifted to inherent immortality of the soul.
The textbook for the course was unique. The professor wrote many but not all of the chapters himself. The other chapters were written by some of his former students. I wrote a paper as a class assignment on the Odes of Solomon. With my permission, the professor made some small edits and published it as a new chapter in the textbook.
Just as the development of the doctrine of the Trinity can be tracked in Church history, so too can the doctrine of the immortal soul be tracked.
The early Church position on the question was conditional immortality. It gradually shifted to inherent immortality of the soul.
The textbook for the course was unique. The professor wrote many but not all of the chapters himself. The other chapters were written by some of his former students. I wrote a paper as a class assignment on the Odes of Solomon. With my permission, the professor made some small edits and published it as a new chapter in the textbook.