David Thom

David Thom (1795-1862) was a Scottish minister who spent his career in Liverpool, England. Called in the 1820s to serve a congregation connected with the Church of Scotland there, he was accused in 1825 of departing from the Westminster Confession and was removed from his charge by the Presbytery of Glasgow. He afterward led an independent congregation meeting in Bold Street, Liverpool, which he described as Berean Universalist, and became one of Britain's most prominent advocates of universal salvation, publishing works including Dialogues on Universal Salvation (1838). He also wrote an account of Liverpool's churches and chapels (1854) and served as a vice-president of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

David Thom of Liverpool — a Scottish-ordained minister whose independent Bold Street chapel became a haven for theological originals — argues the salvation of all in dialogue form. Thom's circle kept British universalism alive between Winchester's generation and the Victorian wider hope, and his dialogues are its principal monument.

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