Conditionalismn.

1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality vi. ii. 615 The literalists of the various forms of Annihilationism or Conditionalism.

1910 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. III. 822/2 In its modern form Conditionalism may be said to be contained in two propositions: (1) that the endless life of the righteous is not the result of any natural immortality inherent, but is the gift of God; (2) that the punishment of the wicked, in the world to come, will not be of endless duration, since their life must finally be extinguished.

1918 J. H. Leckie World to Come 134 He affirms that Titus declared to his soldiers that those who died in battle secured for their souls a future life, while those who perished by natural decay or sickness passed utterly out of existence—which reads very like an excellent military version of Conditionalism.

1918 J. H. Leckie World to Come 219 Conditionalism is formidable in this respect, that it, more than any other eschatological speculation, influences the entire theology of those who adopt it.

1967 New Catholic Encycl. VI. 1006/2 Others..resolved the problem of the punishment of the demons and the damned by means of the theory of conditionalism.

1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality vi. ii. 622 The Conditionalist doctrine involves conceptions both of man's nature and of Christ's work which are inadequate and unreasonable.

1910 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. III. 823/2 Spinoza..was a Conditionalist in the sense that his ‘immortality’ is not enjoyed by any but the wise man.

1910 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. III. 824/1 The conditionalist position (forcibly stated by Locke in a passage already quoted).

1918 J. H. Leckie World to Come 223 This Conditionalist strain in early Christian thought attained to definite dogmatic expression in Arnobius.