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BALLOU, HOSEA (1771-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALLOU, See also:HOSEA (1771-1852) , See also:American Universalist See also:clergy-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Richmond, New See also:Hampshire, on the 30th of See also:April 1771. He was a son of See also:Maturin Ballou, a Baptist See also:minister, was self-educated, See also:early devoted himself to the See also:ministry, became a convert to Universalism in 1789, and in 1794 became a pastor of a See also:congregation at See also:Dana, See also:Massachusetts. He preached at See also:Barnard, See also:Vermont, and the surrounding towns in 18o1–18o7; at See also:Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1807–1815; at See also:Salem, Massachusetts, in 1815–1817; and as pastor of the Second Universalist See also:Church in See also:Boston from See also:December 1817 until his See also:death there on the 7th of See also:June 1852. He founded and edited The Universalist See also:Magazine (1819; later called The See also:Trumpet) and The Universalist Expositor (1831; later The Universalist Quarterly See also:Review); wrote about 1o,000 sermons, many See also:hymns, essays and polemic theological See also:works; and is best known for Notes on the Parables (1804), A See also:Treatise on See also:Atonement (1805) and Examination of the See also:Doctrine of a Future Retribution (1834); in these, especiallythe second, he showed himself the See also:principal American expositor of Universalism. His See also:great contribution to his Church was the See also:body of denominational literature he See also:left. From the See also:theology of See also:John See also:Murray, who like Ballou has been called the See also:father of American Universalism," he differed in that he divested Universalism of every trace of Calvinism and opposed legalism and trinitarian views. Consult the See also:biography by See also:Thomas Whittemore (4.vols., Boston, 1854--1855) and that by Oscar F. Safford (Boston, 1889) ;. and J.. C. See also:Adams, Hosea Ballou and the See also:Gospel See also:Renaissance (Boston, 1904). His See also:grand-See also:nephew, HOSEA BALLOU (1796–1861), born in See also:Halifax, Vermont, on the 18th of See also:October 1796, preached to Universalists in See also:Stafford, See also:Connecticut (1815–1821); and in Massachusetts, in See also:Roxbury (1821–1838) and in See also:Medford (1838–1853); and in 1853 was elected. first See also:president of Tufts See also:College at Medford, serving in that See also:office until shortly before his death, which took See also:place at See also:Somerville, Massachusetts, on the 27th of May 186i. He was the first (1847) to urge the See also:necessity of a Universalist denominational college, and this did much towards the See also:establishment of Tufts.

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elder Hosea Ballou in editing The Universalist Quarterly Review; edited an edition of See also:Sismondi's See also:History of the See also:Crusades (1833); and wrote the See also:Ancient History of Universalism, down to A.D. 553 (1829; 2nd ed., 1842).

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