Charles Francis Rollin Shehane

Charles Francis Rollin Shehane was a Universalist minister active in the antebellum South. Born in North Carolina and raised in Tennessee, he came to Universalism from the Disciples of Christ and ministered in Georgia and Alabama, where he took part in ordinations and public debates with Methodist opponents. In 1847 at Wetumpka, Alabama, he founded the Religious Reformer, the periodical that in 1850 became the long-running Universalist Herald, and in 1854 he published A Key to Universalism, an exposition of Universalist teaching for southern readers.

A rare Southern Universalist imprint: Shehane was the movement's principal voice in Alabama and Georgia, editing its papers and defending its doctrine across a region where Universalist preachers could be counted on one hand. His Key opens the system for Southern readers — and stands with Andrews's Two Opinions in this collection as a document of Universalism below the Mason-Dixon line.

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