Date |
Author or Translator |
Title or Content |
Old Testament / First and Second Temple Period |
Rachel Elior |
The Merkavah and the Sevenfold Pattern |
Old Testament / First and Second Temple Periods |
Dr. Joseph P. Schultz |
Angelic Opposition to the Ascension of Moses and the Revelation of the Law (1971 |
Old Testament / Second Temple Period |
Paul M. Joyce |
Ezekiel 40-42- The Earliest ‘Heavenly Ascent’ Narrative? (2007) |
Old Testament / Second Temple Period |
Dr. James D. Tabor |
Ascent to Heaven in Antiquity (1992) |
Old Testament / Second Temple Period |
Christopher A. Morray-Jones |
The Temple Within (excerpts) (2007) |
200 BC – 100 AD? |
1985 Publication in English by M. A. Knibb |
The Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah |
200 BC – 100 AD? |
Levi’s Ascent |
Testament of Levi |
New Testament Period |
Emma Disley |
Scriptural Basis of Degrees of Glory (1991) |
70 – 155 AD |
Papias of Hierapolis |
Many Mansions; A share is given to all by Father, according as each one is or shall be worthy |
120 AD |
Translation by R.H. Charles, 1896 |
Nature Of Resurrection Body; Final Destinies Of Righteous And Wicked |
125 – 200 AD |
St. Irenaeus |
There Shall Be Various Mansions For Saints, According To Rank Allotted To Each Individual |
150 – 216 AD |
Clement of Alexandria |
Degrees Of Glory In Heaven Corresponding With Dignities Of Church Below |
150 – 216 AD |
Clement of Alexandria |
Degrees of Glory in Heaven |
160 – 230 AD |
Tertullian |
How Many Mansions In Father’s House, If Not Diversity Of Deserts? How Will One Star Differ From Another Unless By Effort, Suffering, Torture, Death? |
200 AD |
Sifre on Deuteronomy |
Seven and Thirty and Sixty Degrees in Paradise, Faces like Sun, Moon, Stars, Planets, Lightning |
160-200 AD (Greek Original) |
English translation by M.R. James in 1924 |
Punishment of Hell, Glories of Paradise |
100 BC—250 AD (Dates of Texts) |
Moses Gaster, Ph.D. |
Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise (1893) |
185 – 254 AD |
Origen |
One Is Glory Of Sun, Another Glory Of Moon, Another Glory Of Stars; One Star Differeth From Another Star In Glory; According To That Gradation, Which Exists Among Heavenly Bodies, Let Them Show Differences In Glory Of Those Who Rise Again |
185 – 254 AD |
Origen |
Many Mansions |
270 – 345 AD |
Aphrahat of Persia |
Know That Even When Men Shall Enter Into Life, Yet Reward Shall Excel Reward, Glory Shall Excel Glory, Recompense Shall Excel Recompense; Degree Is Higher Than Degree; Light Is More Goodly Than Light In Aspect |
306 – 373 AD |
Ephrem the Syrian |
Paradise Has Four Levels: The Summit, The Heights, The Slopes, And The Lower Parts; The Inhabitants Of These Regions Are Correspondingly: God, The Victorious, The Righteous, And The Repentant |
330 – 379 AD |
St. Basil the Great |
For Among The Glories Of The Saints Are “Many Mansions” In The Father’s House; That Is Differences Of Dignities |
330 – 389 AD |
Gregory Nazianzen |
Are There Many Mansions In God’s House, Or Only One? Of Course You Will Admit That There Are Many, And Not Only One |
349 – 407 AD |
St. John Chrysostom |
In Hell & In Kingdom One Will Find Many Differences; In My Fathers House Are Many Mansions; One Glory Of Sun, Another Glory Of Moon, Difference In That World Between One Star & Another |
349 – 407 AD |
St. John Chrysostom |
Having Made Two Ranks Of Righteous & Of Sinners, These He Subdivides Into Many Parts, Signifying That Neither Righteous Nor Sinners Shall Obtain Same; Neither Righteous Alike With Other Righteous, Nor Sinners With Other Sinners |
350 AD? |
Pseudo-Macarius |
Passages on Ascents Prefiguring Resurrection |
200 – 460 AD |
M.R. James Translation of 1924, from Latin, corrected with Greek and Syriac as needed. |
Paul’s Ascent to Paradise & Descent to Hell, With Numerous Different Rewards & Punishments |
380 AD – 450 AD ( Time of Jovinianist controversy) |
Christopher John Gousmett, Ph.D |
Shall the Body Strive and Not be Crowned? |
389AD |
St. Ambrose & The Council of Milan |
They Place Every Thing Level, Abolish Different Degrees Of Merit & Have Meagreness In Heavenly Rewards, As If Christ Had Only One Palm To Bestow & No Copious Diversity In His Rewards |
393 AD |
St. Jerome (345-420 AD) |
Defense Of All Scriptures As Basis For Degrees Of Merit, & Refutation Of All Scriptural Argments In Opposition |
427 AD |
St. Jerome (345-420 AD) |
In Father’s House Many Mansions & Different Degrees Of Merit; Sun Has Its Own Splendour, Moon Tempers Darkness Of Night; Five Heavenly Bodies Called Planets Traverse Sky In Different Tracks & With Different Degrees Of Luminousness; Countless Other Stars Whose Movements We Trace In Firmament & Each Has Its Own Brightness |
420 AD |
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) |
Who Can Conceive, Not To Say Describe, What Degrees Of Honour & Glory Shall Be Awarded To Various Degrees Of Merit? Yet It Cannot Be Doubted That There Shall Be Degrees & That There Shall Be This Great Blessing, That No Inferior Shall Envy Any Superior |
354-430 AD |
St. Augustine of Hippo |
Albeit One Be Stronger Than Another, One Wiser Than Another, One More Righteous Than Another, One Holier Than Another; In Father’s House Are Many Mansions; None Shall Be Estranged From That House; A Mansion For Each According To His Deserving |
354-430 AD |
St. Augustine of Hippo |
After The Resurrection There Shall Be Two Distinct Kingdoms, One Of Eternal Happiness, The Other Of Eternal Misery; Among Both There Will Be Degrees Of Happiness And Misery |
354-430 AD |
St. Augustine of Hippo |
Yet Star Differeth From Star In Glory; So Also Resurrection Of Dead. These Are Different Merits Of Saints; If By That Penny Heaven Were Signified, Have Not All Stars In Common To Be In Heaven? |
344 – 407 AD |
St. John Chrystostom |
There Being Not Only Difference Between Sun, Moon, Stars, But Also Between Stars; Some Have Larger, Others Less Glory. What Do We Learn From Hence? That Although They Be All In God’s Kingdom, All Shall Not Enjoy Same Reward |
400 – 500 AD? |
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite |
(Celestial Hierarchy Of Three Heavens, Each Separated Into Three Additional Groups; From This Order, In Due Degree, Second, & From Second, Third, And From Third Our Hierarchy Religiously Conducted To Beginning Above Beginning, & End Of All Good Order, |
300 AD—600 AD (1983 Translation by Mueller and Robins in OTP, vol. 1) |
Vision of Ezra (Christian Apocalypse) |
Elect Are Those Who Go Into Eternal Rest On Account Of Confession, Penitence, Largesse In Almsgiving; What Do Just Do In Order That They May Not Enter In Judgment? Just As Servant Who Performed Well For His Master Will Receive Liberty, So Too Will Just In Kingdom Of Heaven |
521 AD |
Jacob of Sarug (451 -521 AD) Translated By Thomas Kollamparampil 2008 |
Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Resurrection |
600 AD |
Ruth Rabbah 3:3-4 |
Heavenly Rewards and Heavenly Canopies with Different Numbers of Pearls |
600 AD (Wolf Leslau, Translator) |
Falasha Anthology Translated from Ethiopic Sources (1951) |
Michael Will Blow Trumpet For Third Time, & All Dead Will Be Resurrected In Twinkling Of An Eye; Glory Of Some Will Be Greater Than Sun, Others Will Stand Up In Honor, Still Others In Misery; King Of Heaven & Earth Will Come & Reward All Men According To Their Deeds |
650 AD |
John Climacus (595-650), Monastic Leader, Mt. Sinai Desert |
May This Ladder Teach You Spiritual Disposition Of Virtues; I Am At Summit Of Ladder, & As My Great Initiate (St Paul) Said: So Faith, Hope, Love Abide, These Three; But The Greatest Of These Is Love |
700 AD |
Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian) Eastern Christian Monk |
What is Heaven? – St Isaac of Syria |
1000 AD |
St. Symeon the New Theologian (942-1022) |
Discourses On Christ’s Resurrection, Extasy In The Light, How Not To Lose The Kingdom Of Heaven, And The Final Reward |
1150 AD? |
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – 1153) (French abbot & Leader of order) |
Il y a Plusieurs Demeures Dans La Maison De Mon Père; Le Sens De Ces Paroles Est, Vous Régnerez Avec Moi Dans La Vie Éternelle En Laquelle il y a Plusieurs Demeures, C’est-À-Dire Plusieurs Dignités; En Cet Heureux Séjour, Autre Est La Clarté Du Soleil, Autre Celle De La Lune, Autre Celles Des Étoiles |
1151 AD |
Peter Lombard (1100—1160AD) |
Just As Lighting Up Of Bodies Will Be Different, So Glory Of Souls Will Be Different; For Star Differeth From Star, That Is, One Elect, From Another, In Glory Of Mind & Soul |
1155 AD |
Richard Of St. Victor (1110-1173), Leader of Cistercian Order |
How Third Level Differs From & Rises Above Second; How Fourth Level Differs From & How Much It Rises Above Third |
1160 AD |
Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1166) |
The Perfection of the Coming Life: Lord Thus Distinguished Various Degrees Even Among The Perfect; You Know That Among Saints There Are Distinctions Of Reward, Just As Of Merit |
1208 AD |
St. Dominic (1170-1221); Catholic Saint and Theologian |
The Faithful Children Of The Rosary Shall Merit A High Degree Of Glory In Heaven |
1208 AD (Oldest Date for Text) |
Translated Into English By Rev. Dr. Jacques Issaverdens (1901) |
Concerning The Inquiries Made By The Prophet Esdras Of The Angel Of The Lord Concerning The Souls Of Men; There Are In It Seven Steps Up To The Divinity |
1259 AD (Latin); |
St. Bonaventure (1221 – 1274): Franciscan Monk, Doctor of Catholic Church |
These Six Levels of Ascent Are Six Steps Of True Throne Of Solomon By Which One Ascends To Peace; On Six Wings Of Cherub By Which Contemplative Man Grows Strong, Filled With Supreme Wisdom |
1290 AD |
Moses De Leon (or Rabbi Shim’on Bar Yohai) |
The Multiplicity Of Rewards That Await Mankind In The World To Come In the Zohar |
1300 AD |
Falasha Anthology Translated by Wolf Leslau from Ethiopic Sources (1951) |
Apocalypse of Gorgorios |
1300’s AD |
Helmut A. Hatzfeld |
Linguistic Investigation of Old French High Spirituality (1946) |
1472 (Italian); 1814 (English) |
Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321): Italian Poet |
While There Are Different Degrees Of Reward In Heaven (The Light Shining More In Some Places, In Other Places Less), Light Of God Still Shines Abundantly For All; Dante Sees Divisions Of Heaven; Just As There Are Three Parts To Hell & Purgatory, So Three Parts Of Heaven |
1474 (Published in Latin); 1487 (French) |
Ludolphe le Chartreux / Ludolph of Saxony (c. 1300 — 1378) Catholic Philosopher |
Des Peines De L’enfer Et De La Gloire Céleste |
1510 (Latin) |
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) |
The Happiness Of The Saints And Their Mansions; & Of The Aureoles (Circles Of Light Or Radiance Surrounding The Head Or Body Of Sanctified Persons, Saints & Angels) |
1580; 1882 (Spanish); 1888 (English) |
St. Theresa of Avila (1515 – 1582) |
The Effects Of The Divine Graces In The Soul; The Inestimable Greatness Of One Degree Of Glory |
1600 (Latin); 1864 (First English Translation) |
St. Francis de Sales (Saint and Doctor of the Church) |
Each of Blessed In His Own Degree Of Glory, Continually Singing Before God; As Every One Of Saints Had Gifts Of God In Different Way, So Every One Of Blessed Sings His Praises In Different Way, & Yet All Harmonize In One Concert Of Love |
1616 (French Publication) |
St. Francois de Sales (St. Francis de Sales) (1557—1622) |
Now This Light Of Glory Will Regulate Sight & Contemplation Of Blessed, & According As We Have Less Or More Of That Holy Brightness, We Shall See Less Or More Clearly & Blessedly That Godhead Wherein We Shall Attain To Various Degrees Of Glory |
1617; 1832 (Boston) |
William Fulke (1538-1589) English Puritan divine |
As Stars Differ In Glory, Not According To Their Merits, But According To God’s Gift In Their Creation, So Bodies Of Saints Shall Differ In Glory, Not According To Their Merits, But According To God’s Free Gift In Resurrection |
1622 |
Jacob Boehme, German Christian Mystic |
Of Heaven and Hell; a Dialogue Between a Scholar and His Master |
1631 |
John Donne (1572 – 1631): British Anglican preacher and poet |
We Deny Not This Difference Of Degrees Of Glory In Heaven; But That Frame, & That Scale Of These Degrees, Which They Have Set Up In Roman Church, We Do Deny |
1632 (Latin) |
John Cameron (1529-1623): Scottish Calvinist Theologian |
Fifteen Arguments In Favour Of Heavenly Degrees Of Glory, Each Of Which Carefully Refuted, & Twelve Arguments Against, Which He Defends, Concluding That Elect In Heaven Are Equal In Glory |
1651 (French); 1810 (26th English Edition) |
Charles Drelincourt (1595-1665) |
Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ Ne Dit Pas Qu’il Y A Plusieurs Étages Ou Plusieurs Appartemens, Dont Les Uns Sont Plus Beaux Et Plus Riches Que Les Autres, Mais Simplement Qu’il Y A Plusieurs Demeures Dans La Maison De Son Père |
1651 (French); 1810 (26th English Edition) |
Charles Drelincourt (1595-1665) |
As Light Of Firmament Differs Much From That Of Bright Stars; & As Among Stars There Is Diversity Of Light; In Like Manner There Shall Be Divers & Different Degrees Of Glory Amongst Blessed In Heaven |
1657 |
Moïse Amyraut (1596-1664) French Calvinist Protestant theologian and metaphysician |
De Forte Que Nous Parviendrons A La Gloire Comme Celuy Qui Court En Lice, Qui Void Le But Où Il Tend; Au Lieu Que Nous Parviendrons A Ses Plus Hauts Degrés Comme Les Rameurs, Qui Tournent Toujours Le Dos Au Port Auquel En Fin Pourtant Ils Arrive |
1659 |
Johann C. Dannhauer (1603-1666) German Philosopher and Theologian (In Response to J. C. Sondershausen) |
An In Vita Aeterna Futuri Sint Gloriae Gradus? (Answered in Affirmative) |
1662; last English publication in 1866 |
Thomas Brooks (1608 – 1680): Puritan Clergyman |
Lastly, To provoke you to labor after higher degrees of holiness, consider that the more holiness you have here—the more happiness you shall have hereafter. The more grace you have on earth—the more glory you shall have in heaven. |
1665 |
John Bunyan (1628 – 1688) |
In Temple Were Chambers Bigger & Lesser, Higher & Lower, More Inward & More Outward: Which Chambers Were Types Of Mansions That Our Lord Told Us He Went To Prepare For Us |
1669 |
Johannes Cocceius (1603 – 1669) (Dutch religious thinker) |
A noticeable feature of Cocceius’s account of both eternal punishment & eternal glory is that he spoke repeatedly in terms of steps & degrees (W.J. Van Asselt, 1999) |
1686 |
Johan C. Van Bleiswijkt |
Geestlyck Graad-boek (“On the Degrees of Future Rewards and Punishments”) |
1695 (1815 Publication in Versailles) |
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) French Catholic Bishop and Theologian |
Il y a plusieurs demeures dans la maison de mon Père; s’il n’en était pas ainsi, je vous le dirais. |
1695 (died) |
John Scott, DD., Rector of St. Giles’s in the Fields, London |
The Christian Life: From Its Beginning to Its Consummation in Glory |
1699 |
Jane Leade (1624 – 1704): Christian Mystic, Founder of Philadelphian Movement |
The Ascent to the Mount of Vision |
1700 |
William Burkitt (1650 – 1703) |
Learn Hence, That There Are Degrees Of Glory In Heaven, Probably According To Measures & Degrees Of Service We Have Done For God On Earth; There Is, No Doubt, An Equality Of Glory There, As To Essentials, But Not With Respect To Accidentals |
1701 (First Publication) |
His Holiness St. Leon, Pope (Actual Name Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde) |
Des degrez pour monter à la Beatitude |
1703 (Latin); 1827 (English Translation) |
Dr. George Bull (1634–1710): English theologian & Bishop of St David’s |
Different Degrees Of Bliss & Glory In Christ’s Heavenly Kingdom Answer To Different Degrees Of Grace Here Below; Several Objections Against This Doctrine Are Answered |
1707 |
John Norris, M.A. (1657 – 1711)), Rector of Bremerton Church near Serum |
That There Are Degrees Of Glory, Though By Some Much Contested, Is Yet I Think Most Certain & Unquestionable Truth; Certainty Of Which I Shall Endeavour To Establish Upon These Few Evident Principles |
1716 (English); 1826 (English) |
August Hermann Francke (Important German Pietist Leader) |
Three Practical Discourses: I. Of The Love Of God. II. Of Charity To The Poor. III. Of The Differing Degrees Of Glory |
1717 |
David Constant de Rebecque (1638-1733): Pastor / Philospher, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Discours sur les degrés de gloire (Discourse on the Degrees of Glory) |
1723; Reprinted in London in 1830 |
Thomas Green, (Church of England Bishop of Norwich) |
Of The Different Degrees Of Glory And Happiness In Heaven |
1728 Date of Death |
Joseph Boyse (1660–1728), Presbyterian minister and religious writer |
Sermon on 1 Corinthians 3:8: The Different Degrees of Future Rewards |
1731; 1815 (American Edition in Philadelphia) |
Thomas Ridgley (c.1576–1656) |
Whether There Are Degrees Of Glory In Heaven? |
1732 |
John Wesley (1703 – 1791) |
On The Resurrection of The Dead |
1733 |
Adam Lebrecht Müller |
Significant investigation of Matters of Eternal Life (Gradus Vitae: Oder Deutliche Untersuchung derer Stuffen des Ewigen Lebens) |
1737 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) |
Many Mansions |
1738; republished in 1820 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) |
Not Only Higher Degrees Of Glory In Heaven, But Heaven Itself, Is Given In Reward For Holiness & Good Works Of Saints; God May Bestow Heaven’s Glory Wholly Out Of Respect To Christ’s Righteousness, & Yet Reward Man’s Inherent Holiness In Different Ways |
1739 (English Publication Date) |
Rev. Dr. Thomas Burnet, British Theologian (1635-1715) |
Treatise Concerning the State of Departed Souls Before and At and After the Resurrection |
1740 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) |
All Christians Should Follow His Example & Should Not Content Themselves With Thought That They Have Goodness Enough To Carry Them To Heaven, But Should Earnestly Seek High Degrees Of Glory; For Higher Degrees Of Glory Are Promised To Extraordinary Labors For God, For No Other Reason, But That We Should Seek Them |
1748 |
Charles Louis de Villette: Minister of French Huguenot Church of St. Patrick in Dublin, Ireland |
Essai sur la Felicite de la Vie a Venir (An Essay on the Felicity of the Life to Come) |
1755 |
John Wesley (1703 – 1791): English Reformer |
There Is Inconceivable Variety In Degrees Of Reward In Other World; Let Not Any Slothful One Say, If I Get To Heaven At All, I Will Be Content; Such A One May Let Heaven Go Altogether |
1756; 1822 (American Publication) |
William Law (1686-1761), English cleric and theological writer |
Whilst We Are Labouring After Christian Perfection, We Are Labouring For Eternity, Building To Ourselves Higher Stations In Joys Of Heaven |
1756 (London and Boston) |
John Gill, British Baptist Calvinist Theologian (1697 – 1771) |
The Glorious State of the Saints in Heaven |
1757 Publication Date |
John Conybeare, D.D. (1692-1755) Episcopal Bishop of Exeter |
Sermon on 1st John 3:2: Different Degrees of Happiness in a Future State |
1758 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703 – 1758) |
New England Stone Carving And Its Symbols (Allen I. Ludvig, 1975) |
1758 (Teubingen) |
Johann Friedricht Cotta |
Dissertatio Historico-Theologica Prior de Diversis Gradibus Gloriae Beatorum |
1758 (Latin) |
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1722) |
Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell (excerpts) |
1759 (England); Reprinted 1813 (England) |
Isaac Watts (1674-1748) English Non-Conforming Protestant Theologian and Author of Hymns |
The World To Come; Or Discourses On The Joys Or Sorrows Of Departed Souls At Death, And The Glory Or Terror Of The Resurrection |
1770 |
John Flavel (1627 – 1691): English Presbyterian clergyman and scholar |
We Reject With Abhorrence Popish Doctrine Of Diversity Of Glories As Founded In Diversity Of Merits |
1770 |
Augustus M. Toplady (1740-1778) British Calvinistic divine and author, a Premillennialist |
The Millenium and Degrees of Glory |
1773 |
Johann Friedricht Cotta |
Dissertatio Dogmatico-Polemica de Diversis Gradibus Gloriae Beatorum |
1793 |
Charles Louis de Villette: Minister of French Church of St. Patrick in Dublin, Ireland |
An Essay on the Felicity of the Life to Come |
1797 Publication date |
James Hervey (1714 – 1758) British Calvinistic Clergyman |
In World Above Are Various Degrees Of Happiness, Various Seats Of Honour – Some Will Rise To More Illustrious Distinctions And Richer Joys |
1797 |
Johann Friedrich Flatt (1759 – 1821) German theologian and philosopher |
Remarks about the proportion of morality and Felicitousness in relation to the doctrine of Christianity (Bemerkungen uber die proportion der Sittlichtkeit und Glukseeligkeit in Beziehung auf die lehre des Christenthums von der kunktigen Seeligkeit gebesserter Menschen) |
1805 Publication Date |
Philip Doddridge (1702 -1751) |
There Shall Indeed Be Some Difference In Degree Of That Glory, Correspondent To Different Excellencies In Characters Of Good Men |
1807 |
Solomon Chamberlain (Early Convert to Mormonism) |
Chamberlain’s Vision of Three Heavens |
1808 Publication date |
Joseph Hall (1633-1710), Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, England |
Discoursing Of Different Degrees Of Heavenly Glory; Of Our Mutual Knowledge Of Each Other Above |
1809 Publication Date In London |
Samuel Drew (1765-1833) British Wesleyen Theologian |
Essay on the Identity and General Resurrection of the Human Body |
1820 Publication (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian (1718 – 1800) |
Sermon X – On The Immortality Of The Soul, and A Future State. |
1820 |
Editor: Samuel C. Loveland |
The Christian Repository, (Universalist Journal published in Vermont) Magazine Masthead: In my Father’s house are many mansions.—Jesus |
1821 |
Letter to the Editor |
Covenant That Assigns To Greater Degrees Of Grace Here, Greater Degrees Of Glory Hereafter |
1822 Publication date |
Henry Kollock (1778-1819): Pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church |
Sermon 82: Degrees of Glory in Heaven |
1824 Publication date |
John Angell James (1785-1859): British Congregational Minister and prolific author |
Many Mansions & Degrees of Glory in Resurrection |
1829 |
Alexander Campbell; Founder of Campbellite Restorationist Movement |
The Three Kingdoms |
1830 |
St. Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow |
The Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church: Sections on the life-to-come and Heavenly Rewards |
1832—1835 |
Joseph Smith (1805-1844) |
Doctrine and Covenants 76 Sources |
1833 (London) |
Richard Mant, D.D., M.R.I.A. (1776-1848) Lord Bishop of Down and Conner; English churchman and writer |
Different Degrees Of Happiness Among The Blessed |
1833 (Cambridge; Available in U.S.) |
Bernard Whitman (Calvinist Scholar) |
Friendly Letters to a Universalist on Divine Rewards and Punishments |
1835 |
Joseph Smith (1805 – 1844) |
The Three Degrees of Glory (D&C Section 76) |
1837 |
Rev. Stephen Remington (Methodist Episcopal Pastor, New York) |
Gift Of God, Which Is Eternal Life, Contrasted With Wages Of Sin, Which Is Death, Closed With Objections Against Universalism |
1837 |
Thomas Jefferson Sawyer (1804 – 1899), Universalist Minister and Educator |
Letters to Stephen Remington in Review of his Lectures on Universalism |
1843 |
W.W. Phelps or Joseph Smith (1805-1844) |
The Answer to W.W. Phelps, Esq.: A Vision |
1844 |
Hosea Ballou 2nd (1796- 1861) son of Universalist Founder |
Article 11 – In My Father’s House are Many Mansions |
1844 |
Joseph Smith |
Nauvoo Address on Resurrection |
1848 Publication date |
John Angell James (1785-1859): British Congregational Minister |
High State Of Religion In World, Exalted State Of Honor & Happiness In World To Come; Different Degrees Of Glory In Celestial Kingdom |
1850 |
Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796—1850) (Methodist Episcopal Bishop) |
Different Degrees Of Glory Affirmed With Regard To Inhabitants Of Heaven, Not Inconsistent With Preceding Views |
1859 |
John Angell James (1785-1859): British Congregational Minister |
Different Degrees of Glory |
1860 |
President Brigham Young (1801—1877) |
The Three Glories |
1860 |
Octavius Winslow (1808—1878) Calvinist Baptist Author |
Help Heavenward (1860) Chapter “The Clouds of the Christian, the Chariot of God” |
1860 |
J.C. Ryle (1816—1900) (Evangelical Anglican Bishop of Liverpool) |
Eternity! |
1860 |
J.C. Ryle (1816 – 1900) (Evangelical Anglican Bishop of Liverpool) |
Expository Thoughts On John 23 (1860) |
1864 |
William Branks (1812-1879) |
Meet for Heaven: A State of Grace Upon Earth the Only Preparation for a State of Glory in Heaven |
1877 |
F W Farrar, British Pastor and Theological Writer (1831—1903) |
Sermon IV – Are there Few that Be Saved? |
1880 |
Elder Orson Pratt, Apostle |
The Power Of God To Communicate Intelligence—Difference In Capacity Between The Mortal And The Immortal—The Future Of Man, Etc |
1881 |
President Wilford Woodruff (1807—1898) |
“Vision” Revelation Gives More Light, More Truth, More Principle Than Any Revelation Contained In Any Other Book |
1881 |
l’abbé Charles Arminjon (1824-1885) (French Catholic Spiritual Leader) |
Fin du monde présent et mystères de la vie future |
1882 |
Marcel Bouix (1806-1889) (French Catholic Spiritual Leader) |
Que l’Union des Bienheureux avec Dieu aura Différents Degrés |
1888 |
President Charles W. Penrose (1832—1925), First Presidency |
Justice Tempered with Mercy; Loss Sustained by Disobedient; Doom of the Sons of Perdition; Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Glories; Redemption & Glorification of Earth; Salvation of Whole Race |
1897 |
St. Therese of Lisieux (1873—1897) (French Catholic Saint) |
In Heaven God Will Give His Chosen Their Fitting Glory, Last Will Have No Reason To Envy First |
1897 |
St. Therese of Lisieux (1873—1897) (French Catholic Saint) |
I Desire To Fulfill Perfectly Thy Holy Will, And To Reach The Degree Of Glory Thou Hast Prepared For Me In Thy Kingdom |
1898 |
Alexander Maclaren (1826—1910): Leader Of English Non-Conformist Baptists |
Many Mansions |
1902 |
Theological Quarterly, Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Eschatology |
1902 |
Pastor D. L. Moody |
Heaven: Its Riches |
1913 |
Charles George Herbermann, Catholic Scholar |
Individual Eschatology |
1918 |
President Joseph F. Smith |
Vision of the Redemption of the Dead |
1918 |
Joseph Casimir Sasia, S.J. (“Society of Jesus” – Jesuit Catholic) |
Chapter 18 – The Various Degrees of Merit |
1922 |
Melvin J. Ballard |
The Three Degrees of Glory |
1936 |
Fr. Reg. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. |
La charité parfaite et les beatitudes (1er janvier 1936) |
1941 |
C. S. Lewis |
The Weight of Glory |
1942 |
N. B. Lundwall |
The Vision Or The Degrees of Glory: Eternity Sketched in a Vision from God |
1947 |
Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. ((1877 – 1964), Philosopher / Theologian at Vatican |
Degrees Of Pain In Hell; Our Immortal Soul Reunited Forever To That Body, Though In Different Degrees Of Merit & Demerit; Degree Of Our Life In Eternity Depends On Degree Of Our Merits At Moment Of Death; There Are Many Mansions In The Father’s House Corresponding To Varied Merits |
1949 |
E. Cecil McGavin |
Chapter 13: The Vision of Glories |
1955 |
LaVerne Wesley Hofer, Biola University |
Degrees In Reward And Punishment (Thesis at Biola University) |
1961 |
Sterling W. Sill (1903—1994): Assistant to Quorum of the Twelve |
The Glory of the Sun & A Journey through Hell |
1964 |
Craig J. Ostler and Joseph Fielding McConkie |
Section 76: Revelations of the Restoration |
1971 (1830’s Period LDS Beliefs) |
Robert J. Matthews |
The New Translation of the Bible 1830 – 1833: Doctrinal Developments (Degrees of Glory and the Bible Translation) |
1974 |
Robert J. Woodford (Ph.D Dissertation) |
Section 76, in The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants (Volumes I-III) |
1984 |
Larry E. Dahl |
The Vision of the Glories (D&C 76) |
1985 (1830’s Period LDS Beliefs) |
Grant Underwood |
Saved Or Damned: Tracing a Persistent Protestantism in Early Mormon Thought |
1986 |
Robert L. Millet and Joseph Fielding McConkie |
Many Mansions (Chapter) |
1987 |
D. Michael Quinn |
“The Vision” |
1991 |
Dr. Emma Disley |
Degrees of Glory: Protestant Doctrines and the Concept of Rewards Hereafter |
1992 |
John MacArthur Jr. |
Different Degrees of Reward in Heaven and Punishment in Hell |
1992 |
Larry E. Dahl |
Degrees of Glory (Encyclopedia of Mormonism) |
1992 |
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Then CES Coordinator, Irvine, California |
“Eternity Sketch’d in a Vision”: the Poetic Version of Doctrine & Covenants 76 |
1992 |
Craig Blomberg |
Degrees Of Reward In The Kingdom Of Heaven? |
1993 |
J .I. Packer |
There Will Be Different Degrees Of Blessedness And Reward In Heaven |
1993 |
Alister McGrath |
Whether There Are Relative Grades Or Ranks Among Those In Heaven |
1994 |
John Brooke |
Chapter 8: The Mysteries Defined (Including Section 76) |
1994 |
Dr. Michael Hicks |
Joseph Smith, W. W. Phelps, and the Poetic Paraphrase of “The Vision” |
1994 |
William J. Hamblin, George L. Mitton, and Daniel C. Peterson |
A Review Of “The Refiner’s Fire: The Making Of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844” By John L. Brooke |
1995 (1830’s Period LDS Beliefs) |
Daniel Peterson |
Review Of Grant Underwood, Saved Or Damned? Regarding Belief In Degrees Of Glory By Some Early Converts To Mormonism |
1996 |
Bob Wilkin, Executive Director, Grace Evangelical Society |
The Biblical Distinction Between Eternal Salvation And Eternal Rewards: A Key to Proper Exegesis |
1998 |
R. C. Sproul |
There Will Be Degrees Of Blessedness In Heaven |
1998 |
Robert L. Millet |
Chapter 2 – More Kingdoms Than One |
1999 |
Dr. Barry R. Bickmore |
Three Degrees of Glory and Outer Darkness |
2001 |
Stephen H. Robinson and H. Dean Garrett |
Section 76 |
2001 |
LDS Institute Manual, Doctrine and Covenants |
Section 76 – The Vision of the Degrees of Glory |
2001 |
Randy Alcorn |
The Randy Alcorn Treasure Principle |
2002 |
Bruce Wilkinson |
A Life God Rewards: Why Everything You Do Today Matters Forever |
2002 |
Craig J. Hazen |
The Apologetic Impulse In Early Mormonism: More Reasonable Beliefs |
2002 |
Asher Intrater (Messianic Jewish Leader in Isreal) |
Rewards in Heaven |
2002 |
Wayne Jackson, Editor, “Christian Courier” (Church of Christ) |
Are There Degrees of Blessedness and Punishment in Eternity? |
2002 |
Craig Miller |
Did Emanuel Swedenborg Influence LDS Doctrine? (excerpts) |
2005 |
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod |
Degrees of Heaven / Hell |
2005 |
Robert L. Millet |
A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints – Degrees of Glory |
2005 |
Dr. Richard L. Bushman |
“The Vision,” in Chapter Ten: Exaltation (1832-33) |
2005 |
Elder B. Renato Maldonado, Area Authority Seventy, South America North Area |
Messages from the Doctrine and Covenants: The Three Degrees of Glory |
2006 |
Blake Ostler |
Soteriology in LDS Thought – The Vision |
2006 |
Fr. Stephen Salaris, Father in the Antiochian Orthodox Church |
“Sneak Previews” of the Heavenly Kingdom |
2007 |
Marc A. Schindler |
Heaven and Hell (on FAIRlds website at this link.) |
2007 |
L.G., Blogger, Biola University Student |
Rewards and Punishment |
2008 |
J. B. Haws |
Joseph Smith, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Section 76: Importance of the Bible in Latter-day Revelation |
2008 |
Casey Paul Griffiths |
Universalism and the Revelation of Joseph Smith |
2008 |
Dr. David Reim, Lutheran Pastor and “Confessional” (Traditionalist) LutheranTheologian, B.C., Canada |
Examining and Applying the Scriptural Teaching of Rewards |
2009 |
http://www.gospeldoctrine.org (Outstanding Independent Site for Gospel Doctrine Teachers) |
DC 76 Historical Background |
2009 |
Brandon Washington, Outstanding Black Pastor and Theology Student at Denver Seminary |
Eternity, Life After Death – pt. 3 of 4 © 2009 The Lamppost |
2009 (December) |
John Tvedtnes |
Three Degrees of Glory |