The Divine Efficiency and Moral Harmony of the Universe

A Universalist essay in high theology: Tillotson argues from reason and scripture that the divine efficiency — God's effective will — governs all events, and that the universe is therefore a moral harmony in which sin and suffering are subordinated to a wholly benevolent end. A late, thoroughgoing statement of the determinist strain in Universalist thought that ran from Hosea Ballou's Treatise onward.

(Note: this summary was automatically generated and may be inaccurate.)