Introduction

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

      There are those who feel that early Christians was universalist or believers in universal reconciliation.   By the fifth century, that was clearly no longer was the case, and the orthodox Churches featured the doctrine of  limited atonement.  However Universalists never completely disappeared and one sees their doctrine peaking through the clouds of the previous two thousand years.      It seemed to fit in perfectly with the gestalt of the times during the decades leading up to the American Revolution to the decades just before the Civil War, and churches and societies espousing Universal Salvation spread throughout the United States.    The greater percentage in Maine and  and  western Massachusetts - upstate New York area, but it stretched down through the south to northern Florida to the Mississippi River and following the migration routes to California.    Churches supporting the doctrine that God Is Love began to dwindle in the late 19th and  early 20th century years of cynicism and secularism.  Of course, I've been writing here of the old Universalist Church of America which made Universalism the centerpiece (and name) of their views.  The shrinkage of the church was due to a multitude of reasons, and eventually they joined with the Unitarians in the early 1960s. .  In ten years, the Unitarian Univeralist Association had lost half of their membership, and was no longer a Christian denomination.    With the middle of the 20th century, the  Universal Salvation doctrine was heard in the Evangelical circles, and it began to grow and be taught again. In the late 20th century, there was a small revival of Universalist (in three different meanings) in the UUA.   And then comes a revival of people speaking about Universalism and Universal Salvation from a variety of viewpoints.
    
        The attempt of this particular blog is to mention all the books on Universalism published this new century.
While tempted to not include non-Universalist Salvation books, I will include them, so that folks will at least know what they are (or aren't).   I might also include some history books clearly about the old Universalist Church folks.

         I won't be reviewing these books, but feel free to do so in the comments section.  Please be respectful of books and authors you don't agree with.