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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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The Universalist's Miscellany, Or, Philanthropist's Museum
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Pages : 490
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The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880
Author: Ann Lee Bressler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284668
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book 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. 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284668
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book 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. 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.
The Universalist Miscellany
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Andrew Fuller
Author: Paul Brewster
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805449825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A biography of English pastor Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) highlighting his method of relating doctrine to ministry. Book two of the Studies in Baptist Life & Thought series.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805449825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A biography of English pastor Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) highlighting his method of relating doctrine to ministry. Book two of the Studies in Baptist Life & Thought series.
Mr. Fuller's Letters to Mr. Vidler, on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation
Author: Andrew Fuller
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The British Ethical Societies
Author: I. D. MacKillop
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521266726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A 1986 study of the British ethical societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr Mackillop's comprehensive account explores these societies, which became havens of discussion, rallying-points for progressive campaigns and places of secular worship along with the significant events and personalities in the history of the ethical movement.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521266726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A 1986 study of the British ethical societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr Mackillop's comprehensive account explores these societies, which became havens of discussion, rallying-points for progressive campaigns and places of secular worship along with the significant events and personalities in the history of the ethical movement.
Western Luminary
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Universalist Union
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society
Author: Baptist Historical Society
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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List of members in each volume.
Horace Greeley
Author: Robert C. Williams
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx." "In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era."
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814794025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A major figure in nineteenth-century American politics and reform movements, Greeley was also a key actor in a worldwide debate about the meaning of freedom that involved progressive thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Karl Marx." "In the first comprehensive biography of Greeley to be published in nearly half a century, Williams captures Greeley from all sides: editor, reformer, political candidate, eccentric, and trans-Atlantic public intellectual; examining headlining news issues of the day, including slavery, westward expansion, European revolutions, the Civil War, the demise of the Whig and the birth of the Republican parties, transcendentalism, and other intellectual currents of the era."