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32-465: In the spring of 1984, players from 15 colleges competed in a club All-Star game held at Dean College . It was during this event that the idea of hosting a New England college club championship germinated. Over the next year meetings between the club lacrosse programs in the New England region were held and by the spring of 1986, four teams gathered at Dean College for a single elimination tournament. In

64-566: A "religion of the heart." Early followers were most often German in ancestry. The majority of the early American Universalists lived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, though Rhode Island also had a fair number of followers. Adams Streeter (1735–1786), the first minister of Universalist congregations in Oxford and Milford, Massachusetts , original societies of Universalism in New England, came from

96-563: A Baptist background, ordained in 1774. Hosea Ballou has been called the "father of American Universalism," along with John Murray , who founded the first Universalist church in America in Gloucester, Massachusetts , in 1774. One of the most important early Universalist evangelists was Dr. George de Benneville . Born in a Huguenot family exiled to England, he arrived in America in 1741. A physician and lay preacher, he spread Universalism among

128-693: A state of punishment after death for the wicked. The first General Society was held in 1778. Annual conventions started in 1785 with the New England Convention. In 1804, this convention changed its name to "The General Convention of Universalists in the New England States and Others." At its peak in the 1830s, the Universalist Church is reported to have been the 9th largest denomination in the United States. The Church consolidated with

160-532: Is universal salvation ; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that person would be destined for eternal damnation. They concluded that all people must be destined for salvation. Some early Universalists, known as Restorationists and led by Paul Dean , believed that after death there is a period of reprobation in Hell preceding salvation. Other Universalists, notably Hosea Ballou , denied

192-521: Is Gerrard Winstanley , author of The Mysterie of God Concerning the Whole Creation, Mankinde (London, 1648). American Universalism developed from the influence of various Pietist and Anabaptist movements in Europe, including Quakers , Moravians , Methodists , Lutherans , Schwenkfelders , Schwarzenau Brethren , and others. Pietists emphasized individual piety and zeal and, following Zinzendorf ,

224-458: Is a private college in Franklin, Massachusetts . It offers bachelor's degrees , associate degrees , and certificates. Dean College was founded by Oliver Dean as a co-educational academy, Dean Academy , in 1865. He gave the school approximately nine acres of land and donated $ 125,000 towards its construction. The first class at Dean Academy was on October 1, 1866, with 44 students attending at

256-638: The American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association . Some state Universalist Conventions did not accept the consolidation. These churches and others form minor pockets of Christian theological Universalists which remain, but most are affiliated with other denominations. Universalist congregations tended towards independence and were not easily prone to centralization. They generally met in state conventions, which usually had more authority than

288-678: The Central Collegiate Lacrosse League (CCLA) to form a new conference, the Continental Lacrosse Conference (CLC) . Coast Guard Academy lost in second round to University of St. Thomas Division B only included one team ( University of New Haven ) in 2004 and therefore did not have playoffs. The PCLL(B) did not receive an automatic bid to nationals. The PCLL(B) did not receive an automatic bid to nationals. Coast Guard Academy received an at-large bid to nationals. Dean College Dean College

320-716: The University of New Hampshire defeated Boston University to earn the league's first automatic qualification and represent the PCLL at its first national tournament as members of the USLIA. In St. Louis, Missouri . In 2006 the USLIA became the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). In August 2018, the MCLA announced its intention to merge the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League and

352-559: The Arts, Dean R. Sanders '47 School of Business, Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance, and School of Liberal Arts. Dean also offers part-time continuing studies options to serve students who wish to pursue their education on a part-time basis. Part-time students may also enroll in certificate programs. The school has 16 athletic teams, known as Bulldogs. They participate in Division III of the NCAA in

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384-538: The German immigrants of Berks County, Pennsylvania , and later around Philadelphia and New Jersey . Benneville also commonly visited the Ephrata Cloister , a utopian community with Universalist beliefs. He arranged for the translation of a German book about universalism, The Everlasting Gospel (1753 translation), by Georg Klein-Nicolai of Friessdorf, Germany . Nearly forty years later, Elhanan Winchester read

416-681: The New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (NEILA) for sanctioning of the league. In 1987, Assumption College , Bentley College , Clark University , Dean College , Roger Williams University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute founded the Patriot Lacrosse League. The league's original purpose was to provide structure and legitimacy to the member teams, hoping their institutions would elevate them to varsity status. Five of those six founding Patriot League members were able to obtain their goal. During

448-574: The Universalists, along with various other denominations, vigorously opposed slavery as immoral. They also favored postbellum legislation such as the Fifteenth Amendment and the Freedman's Act to enfranchise all American citizens. Like many American religions, Universalism has generally been amenable to church-state separation. In New England, Baptists, Universalists, and Quakers provided some of

480-669: The book and converted to Universalism. He was influential in the printing of the Sauer Bible of Christoph Sauer (1695–1758), the first German Bible printed in America, with passages supporting Winchester's belief in the universal availability of salvation. In the South, Rev. Giles Chapman was a former Quaker and Continental Army Chaplain who married into a Dunker family. The first Universalist church in South Carolina (and possibly in America)

512-499: The college's oldest structure which houses classrooms, radio station Power 88 WGAO , offices, athletics offices, basketball/volleyball gymnasium, the Center for Student Administrative Services (CSAS), Campus Safety, video production studios/classrooms, the president's office and board room, and two floors of student residences. In 2011, Dean College unveiled a new campus center. Dean has completed over $ 60 million in campus improvements over

544-504: The existence of Hell entirely. Members of the Universalist Church of America claimed universalist beliefs among some early Christians such as Origen . Richard Bauckham in Universalism: a historical survey ascribes this to Platonist influence, and notes that belief in the final restoration of all souls seems to have been not uncommon in the East during the fourth and fifth centuries and

576-657: The following sports: Upon transition into the NCAA, they accepted membership for all sports into the Great Northeast Athletic Conference except for football. They accepted membership into the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference . Dean College students also participate in intramural sports . [REDACTED] Media related to Dean College at Wikimedia Commons Universalist Church The Universalist Church of America ( UCA )

608-563: The league changed its name to the Pioneer Lacrosse League. The Pioneer operated along the same lines for the next several seasons. Teams left the league to compete at the varsity level in the NCAA while new teams joined to fill their place. In the fall of 2000, the league underwent a major change by officially joining what was then known as the US Lacrosse Intercollegiate Associates (USLIA). That same year,

640-536: The local Universalist Church . The main building of the Academy, Dean Hall, was completed in 1868. During the summer of 1872, it was destroyed by a fire, but reconstruction began and finished on June 7, 1874. The school's name changed twice more, Dean Junior College in May 1941 and then Dean College in May 1994. The school's academic mascot is a bulldog named Boomer. The 100-acre (0.40 km ) campus includes Dean Hall,

672-569: The loudest voices calling for disestablishment of the government sponsored churches of the standing order. One example comes from the 1770s. By Massachusetts state law, citizens were taxed to support the Congregational Church of the community where they lived. Sixty-one people in Gloucester left the church to form the Independent Church of Christ, which stood for Universalism. They then refused to pay their taxes. The church they built

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704-697: The past 10 years , including Dorothy and Glendon Horne '31 Hall, Green Family Library Learning Commons, Morton Family Learning Center, athletic field updates (press box, scoreboards, dugouts), Grant Field renovation, and the Rooney Shaw Center for Innovation in Teaching. There are 13 different residence halls on campus, including furnished condominiums in downtown Franklin, suite-style living, all-female residence halls, all-male residence halls and co-ed residence halls. Dean College offers bachelor's degree and associate degree programs within four schools: School of

736-489: The semi-final match-ups, Boston University defeated the University of Connecticut , 6-5, and Dean College defeated the University of Rhode Island , 14-2. That same day, Dean College became the first "New England Club Champion", defeating Boston University by a score of 6-5. After two years of successful tournaments, six teams petitioned the US Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) and

768-477: The spring of 1988, the first Patriot League Championship was played. Dean College defeated Bentley 18-9. The following year, although Roger Williams departed, the University of Rhode Island and Bryant College were accepted into the league. In the spring of 1990, University of Connecticut and Northeastern University joined the league and at the USILA's request to avoid confusion with the NCAA 's Patriot League ,

800-695: The study and treatment of mental illness, and insisted that the insane had a right to be treated with respect. He published a pamphlet on the iniquity of the slave trade. As part of his abolitionism, he helped organize the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage , the first antislavery society in America; he also served as its president. Rush believed, as did Winchester and most Universalists, in

832-604: Was an independent National Convention from 1790 to about 1810. Notwithstanding its tendency toward independence, Universalist congregations supported the construction of The Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, D.C., to serve as the official church of Universalism. In 1921, the Universalist General Convention approved funds for the building of the church and services began in 1925. The present church, located at 1810 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington DC,

864-458: Was apparently taught by Gregory of Nyssa , though this is disputed by Greek Orthodox scholars. According to the Universalist historian Rev. George T. Knight , in the first five or six centuries of Christianity there were six known theological schools, of which four (Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, and Edessa) were universalist. The first verifiable and undisputed believer in universal salvation

896-518: Was established in 1930 and its current congregation continues to follow Universalist principles. The Universalist Church of America involved itself in several social causes, generally with a politically liberal bent. As noted above, Benjamin Rush was a major political activist for anti-slavery causes in early America. The issue resurfaced in the 1850s with the Fugitive Slave Act and other compromises;

928-481: Was originally a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942. In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association . The defining theology of Universalism

960-595: Was seized and sold to pay; however, the Church sued, and in 1786, they won their case. Although the Universalist Church as a denomination never fully embraced Spiritualism , many Universalists were sympathetic to this nineteenth-century movement. Spiritualism was preached with some regularity from Universalist pulpits in the middle decades of the 19th century and some ministers left the denomination when their Spiritualist leanings became too pronounced for their peers and congregations. On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of

992-578: Was the Freedonia Meeting Hall , situated in Newberry County . Benjamin Rush , a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a convert to Winchester's teaching of universal salvation, but not a member of a Universalist church, was a vigorous foe of slavery, advocated the abolition of the death penalty, advocated for better education for women, supported free public schools, was a pioneer in

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1024-632: Was vested in national conventions. To train ministers (among other things), the Church founded in 1831 the coeducational Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York . The church later established three divinity schools: Theological School of St. Lawrence University (1856–1965), the Ryder Divinity School (c. 1885–1913) at Lombard College , and the Crane Theological School of Tufts University (1869–1968). The Philadelphia Convention

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