A Larger Hope?, Volume 2 by Parry Robin A.; Ramelli Ilaria L. E.;

Author:Parry, Robin A.; Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.; [Parry, Robin A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498200417
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00

Christianity has been a significant step along the road, but universalism can be found in all religions and it, not Christian faith, is the higher form into which religion is evolving.

The patterns in growth changed significantly. The hostility of the mainstream churches to the idea of universalism subsided and, as a consequence, those who would have otherwise been drawn out of the traditional churches into the Universalist denomination by the idea found that they could embrace it where they were. In addition, the increasing movement of Universalism away from its biblical roots and Christian orthodoxy would not have endeared it to most Christians exploring the wider hope. “Whereas in 1888 Universalism was claimed to be the sixth largest denomination in the United States, by the second quarter of the twentieth century it was on its way to becoming one of the smallest.”301

In the late nineteenth and twentieth century, there were various discussions of mergers with other likeminded bodies. Eventually, after many decades of on-and-off negotiations, the longstanding love-hate relationship between the Universalists and the Unitarians came to an end and the two bodies merged to form the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1961.

It is time to take our leave of the organized Universalist movement of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America and move on to consider universalists within mainstream Christianity. We shall begin our explorations in Continental Europe with two outstanding men: the celebrated Reformed theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher and the influential Lutheran pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt.

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