About the Author

Ann Lee Bressler received her doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia. She has previously held adjunct appointments to the faculty of Davidson College and is now an independent scholar.

Reviews

This revisionist account of Universalism's first century in the United States profits from its close attention to theological issues and to the ironies of historical development. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Competently written and clearly argued ... meticulously researched ... the only recent history of the Universalist denomination from its origins until its period of retrenchment in the late nineteenth century. The Journal of American History An erudite and coherent analysis of Universalism as a powerful religious idea in the wider culture of American Protestantism. David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement