Universalist Publishing House

The Universalist Publishing House was the Boston-based publishing agency of the American Universalist denomination. Active from the second half of the nineteenth century into the twentieth, it issued the denomination's hymnals, prayer books, annual registers, tracts, and doctrinal works, including titles in this collection such as the hymnal Church Harmonies and The New Covenant (1884), an annotated translation of the New Testament.

A Universalist translation of the New Testament. Hanson renders the text afresh from the Greek with critical and explanatory notes, correcting the renderings on which, he argued, the doctrine of endless punishment depended — most famously translating aionios as 'aeonian' or age-lasting rather than 'everlasting.' Whatever its scholarly standing, it is a remarkable artifact: a denomination confident enough in its reading of scripture to publish its own Testament.

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A late printing of the denomination's standard hymn-and-tune book of 1874 (see that edition in this collection for a full account).

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