Eternal Hope

Five sermons preached in Westminster Abbey in late 1877 by Canon Farrar — and the greatest sensation Victorian eschatology ever produced. Farrar did not assert dogmatic universalism, but his demolition of the popular hell — its mistranslated proof-texts, its moral monstrosity — and his proclamation of an 'eternal hope' beyond death electrified England, provoked Pusey's massive reply, and made the wider hope respectable in the establishment's own pulpit.

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