Timothy Merritt

Timothy Merritt (1775-1845) was a Methodist Episcopal minister, born in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, who entered the itinerant ministry in 1796 and spent most of his career serving churches in New England. A defender of Methodist orthodoxy, he took part in the era's published controversies with Universalists, and his 1832 Discussion on Universal Salvation collects lectures and answers arguing against that doctrine. In 1839 he founded the Guide to Christian Perfection, later renamed the Guide to Holiness, an influential periodical of the emerging Methodist holiness movement. He died at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1845.

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.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)