The Universalist Miscellany
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Page : 498 pages
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Release : 1848
Category : Universalism
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Universalism
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1800
Category : Universalism
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Author : Ann Lee Bressler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190284668
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. Espousing what they saw as a fervent but reasonable piety, many early Universalists saw their movement as a form of improved Calvinism. The story of Universalism from the mid-nineteenth century on, however, was largely one of unsuccessful efforts to maintain this early synthesis of Calvinist and Enlightenment ideals. Eventually, Bressler argues, Universalists were swept up in the tide of American religious individualism and moralism; in the late nineteenth century they increasingly extolled moral responsibility and the cultivation of the self. By the time of the first Universalist centennial celebration in 1870, the ideals of the early movement were all but moribund. Bressler's study illuminates such issues as the relationship between faith and reason in a young, fast-growing, and deeply uncertain country, and the fate of the Calvinist heritage in American religious history.
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Universalism
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Author : William Vidler
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1803
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Author : Chris Chun
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2024-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110420643
This volume examines two major controversies that captured the theological attention of Andrew Fuller. In the wake of the Enlightenment, traditional Christian doctrine was challenged by various rationalistic and philosophical alternatives. A notable example is the thought of William Vidler, a former Baptist pastor who initially embraced Universalism and later Unitarianism. Vidler’s shift was influential enough that Fuller felt compelled to respond through a series of letters, later published in 1802. This critical edition, along with its introduction, provides an overview of Vidler’s theological position and Fuller’s rebuttal. This edition also includes Fuller’s debate with fellow Particular Baptist Abraham Booth, whom Fuller deeply respected. The conversation that developed between them contains some of Fuller’s most mature theological reflections on the doctrines of imputation, substitution, and particular redemption that impacted the transatlantic Baptist and evangelical world of the nineteenth century and have had ongoing reverberations up to the present day.
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Universalism
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Universalism
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Author : Joseph Henry Allen
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Unitarian Universalist churches
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Author : Mark Saunders Schantz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801429521
In contrast to bourgeois churchgoers, who were wedded to decorum and rationality, the plebeians welcomed emotional outbursts and evinced an abiding belief in the supernatural. Schantz charts the ways in which these contrasting religious subcultures collided in the political turmoil of the Dorr Rebellion of 1842."--BOOK JACKET.