Thomas Allin (1838–1909) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman, a writer on
Universalism, also known for botanical research.
Life
He was born at
Midleton,
County Cork, Ireland. He graduated B.A. at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
in 1859, and took orders in the
Church of Ireland. After a succession of curacies, he left for England in 1877.
Works
* ''Universalism Asserted'' (1885 (1st ed.) - 1905 (9th ed.)) (First edition published under title: ''The question of questions''. Some subsequent editions had the title ''Christ Triumphant or Universalism Asserted.'')-
J. W. Hanson
John Wesley Hanson D.D. (1823–1901) was an American Universalist minister and a notable Universalist historian advancing the claim that Universalism was the belief of early Christianity. He was born at Boston.
He is also notable for his eyewitne ...
recounts that this work started when Allin found a copy of
Hosea Ballou's history of Universalism in the British Library and was led to a study of patristic literature.
:* rewritten by Mark T Chamberlain, "Every Knee Shall Bow", privately published.
* ''Race and Religion: Hellenistic Theology: its Place in Christian Thought'' 1899
* ''The Augustinian Revolution in Theology'' (1911, edited by J.J.Lias) "Augustine, as I shall try to show, and always on the authority of his own writings, was in very truth the greatest revolutionary of primitive times. By sheer force of genius and strength of will, he deflected and darkened the whole course of Christian thought in the West. He left Latin Christendom, at his death, the dreadful legacy of belief in an angry and cruel Deity, at whose feet the whole human family lay in terror;"
In his activity as naturalist he had Isaac Carroll (1828–1880) as collaborator. His surveys resulted in ''The Flowering Plants and Ferns of the County Cork'' (1883)
At Google Books
References
*''Crockford's Clerical Dictionary''
Further reading
*C., J. oleman, James ''A County Cork botanical author, Rev. Thomas Allin'', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Ser. 2, Vol. XXII, p. 91, 1916
External links
Page at Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
* ttps://independent.academia.edu/MaxwellBorges1 PDFs - "Race and Religion: Hellenistic Theology" and "The Augustinian Revolution in Theology"
20th-century Irish Anglican priests
English Christian universalists
Anglican universalists
19th-century Christian universalists
English Anglicans
1838 births
1909 deaths
Place of birth missing
19th-century Irish Anglican priests
Christian universalist clergy
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