While browsing my college library’s section on Christianity, I came across the two volumes of Russel E. Miller’s “The Larger Hope”. I checked out the first volume (Subtitled “The First Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1770-1870”). I have only read the first two chapters so far, but what an awesome read! These two chapters focus on John Murray, the “founder of American Universalism”. While I already had a deep respect for John Murray before, it has grown by leaps aqnd bounds reading this biography of his life. I am getting ready to start the third chapter (which seems to focus on the theology of the early Universalist Church, focusing on Murray and his contemporaries). I am so psyched about this book! It was so hard to put it down in Business Law 101 in order to take the quarter’s first exam and follow the subsequent lecture on yawn! torts.
Has anyone else read this book? Does it remain this riveting throughout the book?