Edward Mitchell

Edward Mitchell (1769-1834) was born in Coleraine, Ireland, emigrated to America around 1790, and worked as a bookbinder in Philadelphia and then New York. After a period among the Methodists, he was ordained in 1803 as minister of the Society of United Christian Friends, an independent Universalist congregation in New York City that was trinitarian in theology and stood apart from the New England Universalist denomination. He led the society until his death in 1834, and his collection The Christian Universalist presents his scriptural case for universal salvation; the congregation declined soon after his death.

Edward Mitchell led the Society of United Christian Friends in New York — a Universalist congregation independent of the New England denomination, with roots in the older British universalism of Relly. This book presents his scriptural case for universal salvation in the distinctive, Calvinist-inflected key of that tradition. It preserves a strand of American Universalism that developed alongside, and sometimes at odds with, the Murray–Ballou mainstream.

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