Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationists

Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationists (MAUR), in American religious history, a short-lived Universalist denomination professing restorationism, a theological position that upheld universal human salvation while proclaiming that the human soul would experience a time of punishment after death. Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), a widely influential Universalist preacher, promoted the view that human sin is finite. Thus, all of its effects will be experienced in worldly life, and all of humanity will be saved after death. Ballou’s...