Daniel Parker Livermore

Daniel Parker Livermore (1818-1899) was an American Universalist minister, editor, and reform advocate, born in Leicester, Massachusetts. He served a succession of Universalist congregations, including a ten-year pastorate at Hingham, Massachusetts, and in Chicago he purchased and edited the Universalist newspaper The New Covenant, on which his wife, the reformer Mary Livermore, was associate editor. He supported abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage, and wrote books defending Universalist doctrine, among them The Bible Doctrine of Hell and a guide to Universalist theology. He died in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1899.

A polemical survey of 'orthodoxy as it is: its mental influence and practical inefficiency' — the young D. P. Livermore arguing that the doctrines of total depravity and endless punishment, far from producing holiness, darken the mind and paralyze practical goodness. An aggressive specimen of the Universalist counterattack in the controversy's western theater.

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A token for the bereaved from Daniel Parker Livermore — Universalist minister, editor of the New Covenant in Chicago, and husband of Mary Livermore, whose autobiography is also in this collection. Published the year after the war ended, it gathers the consolations of the Universalist faith for a grieving nation in brief, gentle chapters.

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