Marion Daniel Shutter

Marion Daniel Shutter (1853-1939) was a Universalist minister in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally a Baptist pastor, he became assistant minister at the Universalist Church of the Redeemer in the 1880s and served as its senior minister from 1891 until his death in 1939. Under his leadership the congregation founded Unity House, one of Minnesota's earliest social settlements, and Shutter was prominent in civic life, chairing the Minneapolis Vice Commission of 1911, heading the city's charter commission, and editing a history of Minneapolis. He also argued publicly that evolutionary science was compatible with religious belief.

The old Universalist question — what is punishment for? — restated from a great Midwestern pulpit at the century's end. Shutter, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer in Minneapolis and a leading civic figure there, preaches through penalty, atonement, and forgiveness with the older polemics assumed rather than fought, presenting a God whose justice is itself an instrument of mercy. A good specimen of mature, settled Universalism speaking to a modern city congregation.

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