John Murray brought universalism to America

uuworld.org : john murray's conversion to universalism: "Universalism—the belief that a loving God would not sentence anyone to eternity in hell—has likely been around since the early days of Christianity and the Gnostics. Modern Universalism, however, traces its origins to the 1759 publication in London of Union: Or a Treatise of the Consanguinity and Affinity between Christ and His Church by James Relly."

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Murray left Methodism when he read Relly.

And the path he took heavily influenced me as a seminary student. The bulk of Christianity holds to an impossible understanding that has nothing to do what is easily demonstrable - that Abba is in all and offers the same choice to all. And that such salvation as we know is here. No one knows what comes beyond. That should be a saving understanding, not an invitation to threats of damnation. Religion is happily finished, now in its death throes. An Abba infused spirituality is the happy lot of those who live by the Lord's Prayer and the values noted above and below.

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes