Pope made notable contributions to theological literature which were deemed authoritative by his own church. His greatest work, a systematic theology, Compendium of Christian Theology (1875-1876), set forth influential arguments for the "holiness doctrine of all Methodist systematic theology" and defended Methodist doctrine against its critics. Wayne Grudem writes that, "This work […] is one of the greatest systematic theologies written from a Wesleyan or Arminian perspective." He had Arminian soteriological views.
