Russell Tomlinson

Russell Tomlinson (1808-1878) was an American Universalist clergyman associated with the First Universalist Society of Plymouth, Massachusetts, whose nineteenth-century records preserve a biographical sketch of him. He is known for Orthodoxy As It Is (1845), a critique of the mental influence and practical effects of orthodox theology, written jointly with D. P. Livermore and published in Boston by Abel Tompkins; Livermore prepared the first part of the work and Tomlinson the second.

A polemical survey of 'orthodoxy as it is: its mental influence and practical inefficiency' — the young D. P. Livermore arguing that the doctrines of total depravity and endless punishment, far from producing holiness, darken the mind and paralyze practical goodness. An aggressive specimen of the Universalist counterattack in the controversy's western theater.

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