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Ballou has been called the "father of American Universalism," along with John Murray, who founded the first Universalist church in America.Ballou, sometimes called an "Ultra Universalist," differed from Murray in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism, and opposed legalism and trinitarian views. [1]
Members of the Universalist Church of America claimed universalist beliefs among some early Christians such as Origen. [5] [6] Richard Bauckham in Universalism: a historical survey ascribes this to Platonist influence, and notes that belief in the final restoration of all souls seems to have been not uncommon in the East during the fourth and fifth centuries and was apparently taught by ...
Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book Universalism in America. [5] James Chuter Ede (1882–1965) – British teacher, trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (1945–1951) and President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches; Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) – landscape architect [3]
Dubbed the "Cathedral of Universalism," the Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York was founded in 1838. Through the years, the congregation has attracted such notables as P. T. Barnum, Horace Greeley, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, and Lou Gehrig to its pews.
Scholars Hosea Ballou (Ancient History of Universalism, 1828), John Wesley Hanson (Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years, 1899), George T. Knight (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1911), and Pierre Batiffol (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1914) catalogued some early ...
Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism or universal morality) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics applies universally.That system is inclusive of all individuals, [7] regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or any other distinguishing feature. [8]
Bressler, Ann Lee (2001)The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880, Oxford University Press. Cassara, Ernest (1997) Universalism in America: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith, Skinner House Books, Boston. Church, Forrest (2010) The Cathedral of the World: A Universalist Theology, Beacon Press, Boston.
John Wesley Hanson D.D. (1823–1901) was an American Universalist minister and a notable Universalist historian advancing the claim that Universalism was the belief of early Christianity. [1] He was born at Boston.