The Universalist Movement in America, 1770-1880
, by Bressler, Ann Lee- ISBN: 9780195129861 | 0195129865
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/19/2001
This book offers the first cultural history of Universalism in America.Bressler argues that Universalism began as a radical, community-oriented faithand only later became a "comfortably established" progressive andindividualistic one. She distinguishes Universalist values from more liberalUnitarian values, and shows how Universalists adopted and later abandonedCalvinist beliefs.