Wilbur Fisk

Wilbur (Willbur) Fisk (1792-1839) was an American Methodist Episcopal minister, educator, and theologian. Born in Guilford, Vermont, and a graduate of Brown University (1815), he was licensed to preach in 1818, headed the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and in 1831 became the first president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, a post he held until his death. A leading spokesman for New England Methodism, he opposed Universalism; his lectures against universal salvation, together with replies, were published in 1832.

The Methodist counterattack in formal dress: lectures against universal salvation by Timothy Merritt with contributions from Wilbur Fisk, the most respected Methodist educator of his day, published with the responses the genre demanded. Kept in this collection's debate shelf as the ablest Methodist statement against the doctrine in the very years Universalism was growing fastest at Methodism's expense.

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