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Book Description
- Title:
- The Spirits in Prison and Other Studies on the Life After Death
- Authors:
- Edward Hayes Plumptre [1821-1891]
- Publication Year:
- 1885
- Location:
- London
- Publisher:
- Wm. Isbister Ltd.
- Pages:
- 416
- Subjects:
- Eschatology, Universalism, Wider Hope Theory
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
![Edward Hayes Plumptre [1821-1891], The Spirits in Prison and Other Studies on the Life After Death](images/books6/spirits-in-prison_plumptre.jpg)
Table of Contents
- Preface
- "The Spirits in Prison"
- Short Studies
- The Old Testament in its Bearings onthe Life after Death
- The Teaching of the New Testament as to the Life After Death
- The Descent into Hell:—
- Historical Tradition
- The Scriptural Foundation
- The Eschatology of the Early Church
- The Mutual Anathemas of Romanists and Protestants
- The Salvation of the Heathen
- The History of the Wider Hope in English Theology
- Modern German Thought in its Relation to Eschatology
- Prayers for the Dead
- The Doctrine of Purgatory
- Conditional Immortality
- The Teaching od Bishop Butler as to the Life After Death
- Correspondence with a Roman Catholic Priest
- The Word "Eternal"
- The Damnatory Clauses of the Athanasian Creed
- The Activities of the Intermediate State