Three Essays. On The Intermediate State of the Dead. The Resurrection from the Dead. And on the Greek Terms Rendered Judge, Judgment, Condemned, Condemnation, Damned, Future Retribution, Addressed to Mr. Hosea Ballou, of Boston.

BALFOUR, Walter.

Published by G. Davidson, Charleston, (MS), 1828

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First edition. 8vo., full contemporary calf, leather spine label, vii, (13)-359pp. Name on title, foxing throughout, some rubbing o/w very good. Rev. Walter Balfour was a Boston Universalist who contributed to the Restorationist debate about the afterlife. "In the late 1820s the battle was taken up by one of the younger Restorationists, Charles Hudson, who debated Walter Balfour, a Bible scholar whose arguments against future punishment had made him a champion of the ultras [ultra Universalists were less radical than the rest of the Universalist group]. In 1827 Hudson addressed A Series of Letters to Ballou [Hosea Ballou, the father of Universalism and an ultra, who argued against preaching about a wrathful God] who refused to read it. In 1828 Balfour answered him in Three Essays. Ballou approved Balfour s efforts to counter Restorationist arguments. Balfour s theology was, however, different from Ballou s. He believed dead souls would be extinct until raised to life on the day of the general resurrection. Restorationists charged Balfour with materialism and tarred Ballou with the same brush.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Essays. On The Intermediate State of the Dead. The Resurrection from the Dead. And on the Greek Terms Rendered Judge, Judgment, Condemned, Condemnation, Damned, Future Retribution, Addressed to Mr. Hosea Ballou, of Boston.
• Publisher: G. Davidson, Charleston, (MS)
• Publication Date: 1828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition