{"id":436,"date":"2006-04-12T21:40:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2006-06-14T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T02:15:51","slug":"ballou-and-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Ballou and Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m preparing this Sunday&#8217;s sermon, in which I&#8217;m going to start with Hosea Ballou&#8217;s <em>Treatise on Atonement<\/em> and explore the implications of Ballou&#8217;s Universalism for our understanding of Easter. I left my copy of the <em>Treatise<\/em> at the office, it&#8217;s too late to go get it, and I figure I&#8217;ll just find the text on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>I try Project Gutenberg, but they only have some essays by Ballou and a link to a Wikipedia entry. No links at Wikipedia. I search using Google and Clusty &#8212; nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of Ballou&#8217;s <em>Treatise<\/em> strikes me as a serious hole in the World Wide Web. It&#8217;s arguably the most important English-language text on Universalism. Anyone out there with the time and expertise to scan, edit, and post this text to the Web?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Astute reader M. found part of chapter 3 of the <em>Treatise<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/uuedz.home.comcast.net\/UU%20Voices%20-%20Ballou.htm#Treatise\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A follow-up entry on Ballou&#8217;s <em>Treatise<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=439\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m preparing this Sunday&#8217;s sermon, in which I&#8217;m going to start with Hosea Ballou&#8217;s Treatise on Atonement and explore the implications of Ballou&#8217;s Universalism for our understanding of Easter. I left my copy of the Treatise at the office, it&#8217;s too late to go get it, and I figure I&#8217;ll just find the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}