bMS 532

Miller, Russell Elliott.  "The Larger Hope: The Universalist Church in America from 1871 to 1961" (unedited version).

Summary Information:

  • Call Number: bMS 532
  • Title: Russell Elliott Miller. "The Larger Hope: The Universalist Church in America from 1871 to 1961." 
  • Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
  • Quantity: 3 boxes

Administrative Information:

  • Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection. 

Biographical Note:

For biographical information and related collections, please see bMS 367 and bMS 373.

Container List:

  • bMS 532/1 (1) Preliminary Papers.
  • bMS 532/1 (2) Table of Contents and Preface.
  • bMS 532/1 (3) I. Setting the Stage for the Second Century.
  • Chapter 1 - The Evolution of an Organization: A Retrospective Glance.
  • bMS 532/1 (4) Chapter 2 - Inventory and Self-Assessment.
  • bMS 532/1 (5) Chapter 3 - "That Little Company Called Universalists:" The Statistical Story.
  • bMS 532/1 (6) Chapter 4 - Administering the Financing the Denomination.
  • bMS 532/1 (7) Chapter 5 - From Expansion to Contraction.
  • bMS 532/1 (8) Chapter 6 - Testing the Winchester Profession.
  • bMS 532/1 (9) Chapter 7 - Science and Religion: A Debate Avoided.
  • bMS 532/1 (10) Chapter 8 - The Bond of Fellowship and Statements of Faith (1935).
  • bMS 532/1 (11) Chapter 9 - The International Scene.
  • bMS 532/1 (12) Chapter 10 - The Search for a Wider Fellowship: The National Front.
  • bMS 532/1 (13) Chapter 11 - Clergy and Laity.
  • bMS 532/1 (14) Chapter 12 - The Church and Its Youth.
  • bMS 532/1 (15) Chapter 13 - Summer Institutes: Combining Religion and Recreation.
  • bMS 532/2 (1) Chapter 14 - Publications and Scholarship.
  • bMS 532/2 (2) Chapter 15 - Secular Education in Other Hand.
  • bMS 532/2 (3) Chapter 16 - Theological Education - pp. 1-77.
  • bMS 532/2 (4) Chapter 16 - Theological Education - pp. 78; Canton Theological School - p. 43.
  • bMS 532/2 (5) Chapter 17 - Quillen Hamilton Shinn: The "Grasshopper Missionary."
  • bMS 532/2 (6) Chapter 18 - The Norfolk and Suffolk Missions in the South.
  • bMS 532/2 (7) Chapter 19 - In the Mountains of Western North Carolina.
  • bMS 532/2 (8) Chapter 20 - The Association of Universalist Women.
  • bMS 532/2 (9) Chapter 21 - Denominational Pioneering Overseas: The Scottish Mission.
  • bMS 532/2 (10) Chapter 22 - The Field Is the World: The Establishment of the Japan Mission, 1890-1915.
  • bMS 532/2 (11) Chapter 23 - The Japan Mission Between Two Wars.
  • bMS 532/2 (12) Chapter 24 - Facing a World of Change.
  • bMS 532/2 (13) Chapter 25 - Clarence R. Skinner and the Social Gospel.
  • bMS 532/3 (1) Chapter 26 - Not Your Creed, but Your Need: Social Service and Benevolence.
  • bMS 532/3 (2) Chapter 27 - Edging Closer Together: Unitarian-Universalist Relations, 1870-1925.
  • bMS 532/3 (3) Chapter 28 - An Enlarged "Household of Faith"? Aborted Union with the Congregationalists.
  • bMS 532/3 (4) Chapter 29 - Half-Way Steps Toward Union: Universalist-Unitarian Relations, 1927-1937.
  • bMS 532/3 (5) Chapter 30 - "God's Stepchildren;" The Rebuffs of the Federal Council of churches, 1939-1947.
  • bMS 532/3 (6) Chapter 31 - Universalism at the Crossroads.
  • bMS 532/3 (7) Chapter 32 - Universalist-Unitarian Consolidation, 1937-1961.
  • bMS 532/3 (8) Appendix A - Universalist Declarations of Social Principals.
  • bMS 532/3 (9) Appendix B - Constitution and By-Laws of the UUA, 1961.
  • bMS 532/3 (10) Notes to Text.
  • bMS 532/3 (11) Negatives.
  • bMS 532/3 (12) Photographs.

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