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By Ann Lee Bressler

ISBN-10: 0195129865

ISBN-13: 9780195129861

during this quantity Ann Lee Bressler bargains the 1st cultural background of yank Universalism and its crucial instructing -- the concept that an all-good and omnipotent God saves all souls. even though Universalists have as a rule been lumped including Unitarians as "liberal religionists," in its origins their move used to be, actually, rather diverse from that of the better-known non secular liberals.
Unlike Unitarians resembling the popular William Ellery Channing, who under pressure the duty of the person less than divine ethical sanctions, so much early American Universalists appeared to the all-powerful will of God to redeem all of construction. whereas Channing was once socially and intellectually descended from the rivals of Jonathan Edwards, Hosea Ballou, the major theologian of the Universalist circulate, appropriated Edwards's legacy by way of emphasizing the facility of God's love within the face of human sinfulness and obvious intransigence. Espousing what they observed as a fervent yet moderate piety, many early Universalists observed their move as a kind of enhanced Calvinism.
The tale of Universalism from the mid-nineteenth century on, even if, used to be mostly certainly one of unsuccessful efforts to keep up this early synthesis of Calvinist and Enlightenment beliefs. ultimately, Bressler argues, Universalists have been swept up within the tide of yankee spiritual individualism and moralism; within the past due 19th century they more and more extolled ethical accountability and the cultivation of the self. by the point of the 1st Universalist centennial social gathering in 1870, the beliefs of the early stream have been all yet moribund. Bressler's research illuminates such concerns because the dating among religion and cause in a tender, fast-growing, and deeply doubtful nation, and the destiny of the Calvinist background in American spiritual history.

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