History of opinions on the scriptural doctrine of retribution

A history of the doctrine of future punishment by a member of America's most famous clerical family — Edward Beecher, Congregationalist, brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher was no Universalist, but his candid survey concedes the wide prevalence of restorationism among the early fathers and the late, contested arrival of endless-punishment orthodoxy — conclusions the Universalists gratefully cited ever after. A fair-minded outsider's confirmation of much the denomination had long argued.

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