is his Life and Immortality in which he deployed all of his rhetorical skills to promote the doctrine of conditional immortality. Atkinson was a creationist and was a founding member of the Evolution Protest Movement in 1935. Literary style Atkinson was keen to cover a broad scope, especially historical, in his subjects and to avoid specialist terminology. In the foreword to 'The Greek Language", for example, he states it is "a summary history of the whole language from its origins to the present day" and of the difficulty of "the tendency of the linguistic chapters to become too technical and those upon literature too elementary". Nevertheless, as a Latin scholar he is unafraid of giving even whole verbatim quotations from the original sources in that language in his evangelical works intended for wider readership. In the latter works, while he writes in plain language and draws on a wide range of facts, his style often becomes highly rhetorical in criticism of The Roman Catholic Church (particularly the Inquisition) and Liberal Christianity. In many ways he was the pioneer of popular evangelical literature written in a plain style. See also Annihilationism, the belief of some Christians that the unsaved ultimately cease to exist Historicism view of apocalyptic prophecy that sees it as synchronous with church history. Postmillennialism view that Christ will only visibly come after the millennium. References Further reading John Wenham, "The Case for Conditional Immortality" in Nigel M. de S. Cameron, ed., Universalism and the Doctrine of Hell. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992, p162–163 Le Roy Froom, The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, volume 2, especially p881–888 Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment. Houston: Providential Press, 1982, p407 1895 births 1971 deaths British Christian creationists British Christian theologians English librarians People from Tonbridge Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge