Thomas Allin

Thomas Allin (1838-1909) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman of the Church of Ireland, born at Midleton, County Cork, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After holding Irish curacies he moved to England in 1877; he was also a capable field botanist who published a flora of County Cork. He is chiefly remembered for Universalism Asserted (1885), a sustained argument that reason, the church fathers, and Scripture all support the final restoration of all people; the book passed through several editions and remains a frequently cited statement of Christian universalism from within Anglicanism.

Allin's first book, the popular predecessor of his scholarly Universalism Asserted (also in this collection): is Christ the Saviour of the world in fact, or only in offer? Written for general Church readers rather than patristic specialists, it carried the Anglican universalist case to the audience the larger book would later arm.

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The full-strength scholarly case, from a clergyman of the established church: Universalism asserted 'on the authority of reason, the Fathers, and Holy Scripture.' Where Farrar hoped and Plumptre speculated, Allin affirms — marshalling the patristic evidence for universal restoration with a thoroughness that made his book the standard Anglican universalist treatise, still reprinted today. The Victorian wider hope arriving at its destination.

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