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Universalism

noun

The theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved.

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... And the books 'gainst Christians fighting. Some books of sound theology, Robert Barclay's "Apology." Dyer's "Religion of the Shakers," Clarkson's also of the Quakers. Many more books I have read through— Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" too. A book concerning John's baptism, Elias Smith's "Universalism." ...

— Whittier-land - A Handbook of North Essex • Samuel T. Pickard

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... advocated the converting power of the Lord's Supper; Charles Chauncy (1705-1787), a great-grandson of President Chauncy, celebrated as a stickler for great plainness in writing and speech, and one of the founders of Universalism in New England, whose Seasonable Thoughts was in opposition to the preaching of Whitefield; and Aaron Burr (1716-1757), father of the political opponent and slayer of Alexander Hamilton, and author ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

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... don't see," observed Theron, "granting that all this is true, how you think the Catholic Church will come out on top. I could understand it of Unitarianism, or Universalism, or the Episcopal Church, where nobody seems to have to believe particularly in anything except the beauty of its burial service, but I should think the very rigidity of the Catholic creed would make it impossible. There everything is ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

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