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Ballou's debate with his friend Edward Turner on the question of future punishment, published in the Gospel Visitant in , caused controversy that continued in the denomination for many years. The Gospel Visitant , a journal created by Ballou and his ministerial colleagues in in order to discuss theological issues, had been for several years defunct, but was revived in order to air the debate.
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Turner defended the common understanding among Universalists that there was a limited period of punishment in the afterlife, after which souls would be ushered into heaven. Appealing to the stories of the patriarchs of the Old Testament as proof, Ballou adopted the radical position that human beings are rewarded for good behavior, or punished for their misdeeds, in this life.
At death they are transformed by the power of God's love as they enter eternity. Ballou's interpretation, labeled "Ultra Universalism," or "Death and Glory" by his opponents, was largely responsible for the Restorationist controversy.
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This was the occasion for the publication of the second most important of his several books, An Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution , During the course of his several ministries, Ballou engaged in controversy, both oral and in print, with many foes. Aside from the Restorationist Controversy, the most notable of his debates during his years in Boston was with the leading Unitarian minister, William Ellery Channing.
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Channing first came to his attention with his sermon, "Unitarian Christianity," delivered at the ordination of Jared Sparks in Baltimore in Ballou published long extracts from the sermon in the Universalist Magazine. Given the position he had taken in A Treatise on Atonement , he was particularly pleased with the great stress Channing placed on the use of reason in interpreting the Bible. His criticism was reserved for Channing's use of the term "incorrigible sinners. When, in late and early , Massachusetts held a convention to revise its constitution, the attempt to separate church and state was opposed successfully by the eloquent Daniel Webster, among others.
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Channing, as did a number of other Unitarian ministers, defended the union of church and state, arguing that religion is not merely a personal matter between God and human beings. Government, therefore, ought "to pay homage to God, and express its obligation. In response to Channing's argument, he wrote: Tax money continued to support Congregational and Unitarian churches until Ballou's exposition of "Ultra Universalism" led Channing to attack him in a sermon in , saying that he had never seen a "more irrational doctrine.
Given that Channing criticized Ballou on the subject of Ultra Universalism, it is not surprising that Ballou would carry the argument to Channing on the subject of salvation, specifically the Unitarian concept of "Salvation by Character. Ballou's response was to stress the sinfulness of human beings and the love of a God who had determined to save all human beings, regardless of their success or failure in attempts to live the moral life. His argument is summed up in the Trumpet and Universalist Magazine , in , in an article, the title of which was a direct challenge to the Unitarians: In homely language, he summed up his belief in a God who, as a Father, loves all his children: You cleanse it, and array it in clean robes.
The query is, Do you love your child because you have washed it? Or, Did you wash it because you loved it? If God was, as claimed, omniscient and omnipotent, he obviously could not be foiled in his plan to save all human beings.
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This obviously was a further challenge to the Unitarians and to the Arminians among the Universalists, who preferred to believe that they had something to say about their own salvation. From Reason, from the Scriptures, and from History , which persuaded him to reject the Arian interpretation of the nature of Christ. Henceforth, Ballou believed that Jesus had been fully human, but had been chosen by the deity to preach his love for humanity. From , he was pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Boston. He wrote a number of influential theological works, as well as hymns, essays and sermons, and edited two Universalist journals.
Ballou has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism. The family claimed to be of Anglo-Norman heritage. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, Hosea Ballou was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In he converted to Universalism , and in became pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts.
Ballou preached at Barnard, Vermont and surrounding towns in —; at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in —; at Salem, Massachusetts in —; and, as pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Boston, from December until his death there. He founded and edited The Universalist Magazine —later called The Trumpet , and The Universalist Expositor —later The Universalist Quarterly Review , and wrote about 10, sermons as well as many hymns , essays and polemic theological works.
These works mark him as the principal American expositor of Universalism.