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(Real) Universalism cannot be circumscribed

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uufreespirit
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: (Real) Universalism cannot be circumscribed

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-- Thanks to the "Transient and Permanent" blog for this provocative quote from the Rev. (Dr.) Clinton Lee Scott;

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"John Murray lived to see the world pass by him, and to know he was powerless to stop it. So it has been and will be with those who resist the changes that inevitably attend man’s theological speculations. A vital and creative faith cannot be circumscribed by any set of theological pronouncements. Whatever Universalism is to be, it will not be what it has been.”

–- Rev. Clinton Lee Scott

(The Universalist Church in America. Boston: The Universalist Historical Society, 1957: p. 46.)

-- This speaks to the "movement-nature" of Universalism. It attracts me because it suggests the inherent incompleteness of the journey of inclusion and acceptance that is Universalism, as well as the "attitudinal" rather than specific theological (e.g. Christocentric) core and legacy of our ultra-liberal faith.
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