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Universalism The Prevailing Doctrine of The Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years

Author: J. W. Hanson D.D. (1823–1901)

Originally Published: 1899

Published: Jun 1, 1999

Read Time: 6 Hours 59 Minutes

(and showing the influence of Greek Mythology
and pagan philosophy on Christian Doctrine
)

ὁ Θεὸς πάντα ἑν πᾶσιν—1 Corinthians 15:28

Boston and Chicago
Universalist Publishing House
1899


Copyright
Universalist Publishing House
A.D. 1899


To
Rev. J. S. Cantwell, D.D.
As a token of friendship of many years duration, and
as a merited, though an inadequate recognition
of life-long and valuable service ren-
dered to the great truth to which
this book is devoted, it is affec-
tionately inscribed by
the author.


Put into electronic format by Glade Swope in 1999 for the benefit of all mankind.

[Editor’s note (2026): All scriptural references have been modernized according to CMOS/SBL standards, and Roman numerals have been updated to Arabic numbering. In addition, we have updated all Erasmian transliterations to Neo-Hellenic Koine Greek.

For further study on Erasmian vs Neo-Hellenic Koine, we recommend two scholarly works: Dr. Philemon Zachariou’s Reading and Pronouncing Biblical Greek: Historical Pronunciation versus Erasmian (greeklinguistics.net), and Dr. Benjamin Kantor’s The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam (koinegreek.com). For reference, the two key Greek words discussed throughout are αἰών/αἰώνιος — rendered in Erasmian as aion/aionios, and in Neo-Hellenic Koine as eón/eónios.]

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