The Universal Restoration

Elhanan Winchester was a celebrated Baptist revivalist who shocked his Philadelphia congregation by embracing the doctrine of universal restoration. Cast as four friendly dialogues between a minister and his skeptical friend, this book answers, one by one, the scriptural objections commonly raised against universal salvation. Winchester's position — that punishment after death is real and serious, but corrective and finite, ending in the restoration of all — became the 'Restorationist' pole of early Universalism, in contrast to Ballou's belief that suffering ends at death.

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