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050		4	_aBX9933.B74 2001
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100	1		_aBressler, Ann Lee.
245	1	4	_aThe Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, Incorporated, _c2001.
264		4	_c©2001.
300			_a1 online resource (214 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aReligion in America Series
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: Calvinism Improved -- TWO: The Challenge of Communal Piety -- THREE: Controversy and Identity -- FOUR: Universal Redemption and Social Reform -- FIVE: Universalism and Spiritual Science -- SIX: Winning the Battle, Losing the War -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
520			_aIn 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 itsorigins 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 fromthe 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, manyearly 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 andmoralism; 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 therelationship between faith and reason in a young, fast-growing, and deeply uncertain country, and the fate of the Calvinist heritage in American religious history.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aUniversalist churches -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
650		0	_aUniversalism -- History -- 18th century.
650		0	_aUniversalist churches -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
650		0	_aUniversalism -- History -- 19th century.
650		0	_aUnited States -- Church history -- 18th century.
650		0	_aUnited States -- Church history -- 19th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBressler, Ann Lee _tThe Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880 _dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2001 _z9780195129861
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aReligion in America Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3051835 _zClick to View
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