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From Pat Deveney's database:
Pneumatologist, The. "It will be the aim of this publication, to establish, by all legitimate means, the doctrine of man’s spiritual existence after death till the resurrection, when soul, spirit, and body will be re-united, to receive their final retribution." Apparently the journal was designed to refute the growth of the conditional immortality doctrine in the "Millerite or Second Adventist" movement to which Rev. Litch adhered. Its cover proclaimed that it was "devoted to the proof and illustration of man’s spiritual existence after death, by an appeal to Scripture and facts." Noted in "The Pneumatologist," Spiritual Philosopher 1/3 ( |
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The Pneumatologist was a Philadelphia magazine of 1850–51 edited by Josiah Litch, a Millerite (Adventist) minister, devoted to proving from Scripture and reason the immortality of the soul and 'man's spiritual existence after death till the resurrection.' It appeared just as the Rochester spirit-rappings were spreading, and it engages that new movement doctrinally — weighing rappings, mediums, clairvoyance and 'magnetic sleep' — from a Christian-apologetic rather than a believer's standpoint. Litch's prophetic bent surfaces in disputes over demoniacal miracles and interpretations of the apocalyptic 'scarlet beast' and the Church of Rome. It is best understood as clerical pneumatology intersecting early Spiritualism and animal magnetism, with survival after death as its central concern. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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