The fundamental error of Universalism is its denial that penalty is vindicatory, and that justice is distinct from benevolence.
Robinson: "Universalism results from an exaggerated idea of the atonement.
Does not the particularism of the former conflict with the universalism of the latter sentence?
Thus the spirit of separatism and of universalism work in opposite directions.
Israel's particularism, says Professor Lazarus,(1421) has its universalism as motive and aim.
This motive foruniversalism became all the stronger, as the faith became more centered in the sublime conception of God as Master of all the world.
From the theology of John Murray, who like Ballou has been called "the father of American Universalism," he differed in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism and opposed legalism and trinitarian views.
You have only to connect with this doctrine the declaration that God is benevolent, or just, andUniversalism follows.
Theses theologicæ he constructed a system of theology, in which the divine foreknowledge of the result, as the reconciling middle term between the particularism and universalism of the call, was set forth in a manner favourable to the latter.
What did Jesus say or imply, during His earthly ministry, about the universalismof the gospel?
And, finally, theuniversalism of the apocalypses does not transcend that of the great Old Testament prophets.
The Christian view makes uniquely clear the universalism of the moral law.
That ultra Universalism is better, in its moral tendency, than any other system of faith.
Moreover, the closing words of the book breathe a spirit of universalism and humanity that is almost the high-water mark of Old Testament inspiration, and this encourages the reader to look for some deeper meaning in the rest of the book.
Universalism struggles for expression in this writer, but it is not always so clear and definite as in the writings of the great Isaiah.
Universalism is the necessary corollary to Monotheism, but the strong sense of Israel as His chosen instrument hinders the clear statement of this truth by the Prophets.
Christianity met with success in the great cosmopolitan centers, like Antioch and Alexandria, where universalism was a tradition and had become a part of the crowd sentiment.
This alienation was the inevitable effect of an idea of universalism opposed to the hereditary Jewish nationalism.
It succeeded best of all in Rome where universalism reached its highest development.
This variation from the traditional Greek and Roman universalism had momentous results.
The most noteworthy feature common to the two was their combination of universalism and individualism--a feature that is, perhaps, characteristic of world culture as such.
Apparently both universalism and individualism become more prominent with the course of time.
Wherever the universalismof Christianity is not violated in favour of the Jewish nation, we have to recognise every appropriation of the Old Testament as Christian.
The influence of Paul in this direction is exhausted in working out the universalism of the Christian religion, for a Greater than he had laid the foundation for this movement, and Paul did not realise it by himself alone.
Because: (1) the Pauline universalism is based on a criticism of the Jewish religion as religion, including the Old Testament, which was not understood and therefore not received by Christendom in general.
But the later development presupposes neither his clear formulation nor his peculiar establishment of universalism, but only the universalism itself.
Footnote 49: The complete universalism of salvation is given in the Pauline conception of Christianity.
Gentile Christians, it will follow that the writer exhibits a particularistic tendency altogether at variance with the universalism of the author of the fourth Gospel.
The universalism of the Apocalypse is from the first apparent.
This expression of universalism was so obnoxious to the patriotic spirit of so large a number of the people of Kumamoto Ken, or Province, that the governor required the school to dismiss that teacher.
The adherents of Universalism insist upon philanthropy and the brotherhood of man.
The Pharisees would have replied, "True, we have not grasped the idea of universalism in any effective way.
And that made real universalism impossible, whatever might be the aspirations of this or that particular Rabbi.
He might have made a strong case against the particularism of the Pharisees in comparison with the universalism of his own Gospel.
Universalism asserted as the Hope of the Gospel on the Authority of Reason, the Fathers, and Holy Scripture.
You inform me that you do not know what system of Universalism I have embraced.
The universalism of the Prophets was inadequate for the consolidating of a nation.
Their religious universalismcould apply only to a distant future.
Two Biblical passages, the one from Deuteronomy, the other from Deutero-Isaiah, afford a signal illustration of the contrast between the religious nationalism of the Mosaic law and the universalism of the Prophets.
It would be vain to seek in it for the comprehensive universalism of the Prophets.
It puts a plea into the mouth of sinners to justify themselves in their sins, and leads to Universalism and infidelity.
Had Methodism been as well known in New-England fifty years ago, as it now is, it is doubtful whether Universalism or Unitarianism would have gained much influence in this country.
If therefore predestination be true, Universalism is true, according to the universally acknowledged principles of justice.
The universalism of the psalm does not forget the special place held by the nation whom God "has chosen and brought near.
Trained in the old theology of New England, he became a believer in Universalism by being first awakened to a consideration of its doctrines by the preaching of Rev.
It settled at once and for all time the loose statement that Universalism was a new doctrine, not known to any extent in olden times.
He was inclined to the faith of the Presbyterian Church until about the age of twenty-three, when he had opportunities for hearing the doctrines of Universalism advocated and defended by the late Rev.
Under its present name, Universalismis comparatively recent; its special church history being comprehended in something more than a century.
Mr. Hatfield, the substance of which was published in a small volume entitled "Universalism as it is.
Besides, Universalism in New York had suffered greatly through the defection of Abner Kneeland, and the consequences of his lamentable course were still fresh in the memory of all.
When Universalism began its mission, religion so to speak, had become ossified and rigid, and it was necessary, to meet the advanced thought of the age, that some change be made in it.
All these declarations, as we apprehend them, are in perfect accord with the teaching, spirit, and assurance of the Universalism of the New Testament.
This is the Universalism that has led the way in this great advance and change of theological thought, in the New England and other churches, which is so widespread at this hour.
Universalism was the evening star of the church as the night of the dark ages came on, and appeared as the morning star at the dawn of the Reformation.
East and west, south and north, were united under one great Roman vault, the four quarters of the globe were over-arched, and the broad cupola of universalism set over them.
With the Flavians, down to Septimus Severus, a new spirit of artistic universalism pervaded the Roman world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "universalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
