Hanson's New Covenant

Hanson's New Covenant is a distinct late nineteenth-century American rendering of the New Testament associated with Universalism, the tradition that held to the ultimate reconciliation of all people to God and which produced a number of its own scriptural and devotional works during the period. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, and it is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English text, guided by a readable, theological philosophy. Like several other independent versions of its era, it appeared first in stages before being issued in complete form. It belongs to a broader nineteenth-century movement in which individual scholars and denominational figures, working outside the large committee revisions of the day, prepared English New Testaments intended to serve particular readerships and interpretive commitments.