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File Format | PDF
File Size | 1.0 MB
Pages | 214
Language | English
Category | America
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Description: In this volume
Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and
its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves
all souls. Although Universalists have commonly been lumped together with
Unitarians as "liberal religionists," in its origins their movement
was, in fact, quite different from that of the better-known religious liberals.
Unlike
Unitarians such as the renowned William Ellery Channing, who stressed the
obligation of the individual under divine moral sanctions, most early American
Universalists looked to the omnipotent will of God to redeem all of creation.
While Channing
was socially and intellectually descended from the opponents of Jonathan
Edwards, Hosea Ballou, the foremost theologian of the Universalist movement,
appropriated Edwards's legacy by emphasizing the power of God's love in the
face of human sinfulness and apparent intransigence.
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The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880
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