Justice and mercy, sermons on penalty and forgiveness

The old Universalist question — what is punishment for? — restated from a great Midwestern pulpit at the century's end. Shutter, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer in Minneapolis and a leading civic figure there, preaches through penalty, atonement, and forgiveness with the older polemics assumed rather than fought, presenting a God whose justice is itself an instrument of mercy. A good specimen of mature, settled Universalism speaking to a modern city congregation.

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