Thoughts on the Divine Goodness

The one Continental classic of the early universalist revival. Petitpierre, a Swiss pastor at Neuchâtel, was removed from his pulpit for denying eternal punishment — the affair that reportedly drew from Frederick the Great the quip that if his Neuchâtel subjects insisted on being eternally damned, he had no objection. His book argues from the goodness of God that all punishment of moral agents is corrective and must end in their amendment. Translated from the French, it circulated widely among English and American Universalists.

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