A Series of Letters Addressed to Rev. Hosea Ballou

The opening barrage of Universalism's great internal war. Hudson — a Restorationist minister, later a congressman — publicly challenged Ballou's teaching that all punishment ends at death, arguing for a limited future retribution. The exchange that followed split the denomination for a generation; with Paul Dean's lectures and Ballou's Examination (all in this collection), the Restorationist controversy can now be read from both sides.

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