Lewis Beals Fisher

Lewis Beals Fisher (1857-1936) was an American Universalist minister and educator. He was president of Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, in the first decade of the twentieth century, and after the college's Ryder Divinity School moved to Chicago in 1912 to affiliate with the University of Chicago he continued his work there at the Universalist Ryder House. He prepared A Brief History of the Universalist Church for Young People for the Young People's Christian Union, and later published Which Way? A Study of Universalists and Universalism (1921), an accessible survey of Universalist history and belief for general readers.

The dean of the Ryder Divinity School asks where Universalism stands and where it is going — and answers with the era's most quoted description of the denomination: Universalists 'do not stand still long enough' to be photographed, for they grow. The latest-dated book in this collection's doctrinal shelf, it closes the arc that begins with Relly's Union in 1759.

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