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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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]
Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a theologically liberal religion characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning". [117] Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed ; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and ...
Eddy contributed the volume upon “Universalism” in Volume X American Church History, and was a writer of articles upon the Church in several encyclopedias. Eddy in 1887 became the editor of The Universalist Register , and for nineteen years, gave it care and patience in the research for information and intelligence in placing the ...