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Soul sleep
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Christian mortalism.
Soul sleep
The phrase soul sleep appears to have been popularized by John Calvin in the subtitle to his Latin tract Psychopannychia (Psychopannychia (manuscript), Orléans, 1534, Psychopannychia (print) (in Latin), Strasbourg, 1542, Psychopannychia (in French) (2nd ed.), Geneva, 1558 [1545], Psychopannychia, 1581). The title of the booklet comes from Greekpsyche (soul, mind) with pan-nychis (παν-νυχίς, all-night vigil, all-night banquet), so Psychopannychia, originally, represents Calvin's view that the soul was conscious and active after death.