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| | Unitarian Universalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Unitarianism was rebuffed by orthodox Christianity at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but it resurfaced subsequently in Church history. | | | Unitarian Universalism is often referred to by its members as a living tradition, and the principles and purposes have been modified over time to reflect changes in spiritual beliefs among the membership. | | | Unitarian Universalists and Quakers still share many principles, notably that they are creedless religions with a long-standing commitment to social justice. |
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| | What is unitarianism? CARM |
| | Unitarianism is the belief that God exists in one person, not three. | | | In the context of universalism, the Unitarianism discussed here is that belief that denies the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personhood of the Holy Spirit, eternal punishment, and the vicarious atonement of Jesus. | | | We can see that the Unitarian Universalists speak first from their own desires, according to their own wisdom, and not according to the wisdom of God. |
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http://www.carm.org/uni/unitarianism.htm
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| | Unitarianism, Unitarian Christianity |
| | Unitarianism is a form of Christianity that asserts that God is one person, the Father, rather than three persons in one, as the doctrine of the Trinity holds. | | | Unitarianism came to New England as early as 1710, and by 1750 most of the Congregational ministers in and around Boston had ceased to regard the doctrine of the Trinity as an essential Christian belief. | | | More conservative Unitarians were critical of Emerson and his followers, known as transcendentalists, fearing that such subjectivism would destroy the claim of Christianity to be a divinely revealed religion. |
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| | Unitarianism |
| | Unitarianism since Channing can only be considered Christian, if one defines Christianity as being the religion *of* Jesus, not that *about* him. | | | Young adults now coming to Unitarianism (often seeking a church school for their children) are more likely to be coming from a secular background and to be seeking spiritual meaning. | | | Since transcendentalism, Unitarianism has been strongly influenced by humanism, and in more recent years, by the concepts of Eastern religions and earth centred religions. |
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http://www.slc.bc.ca/mac/uni.htm
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| | Socinianism, Arianism and Unitarianism (No. 185) |
| | The Unitarians are held to deny the pre-existence, divine birth and hence the worship of Christ. | | | The Church of God was always, from the inception with Christ and the apostles, subordinationist Unitarian. | | | It was in the teaching of Christ that Socinius differed from the Unitarians, even though he taught the adoration or worship of Christ which the Church of God refused to do. |
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http://www.logon.org/english/s/p185.html
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| | American Transcendentalism |
| | Unitarianism was a religion for upright, respectable, wealthy Boston citizens, not for the rough jostle of the streets or the backwoods. | | | The heresy of the Transcendentalists (for which the early Puritans had hanged people) was to countenance mysticism and pantheism, or the beliefs in the potential of the human mind to commune with God and in a God who is present in all of nature, rather than unequivocally distinct from it. | | | Transcendentalism cannot be properly understood outside the context of Unitarianism, the dominant religion in Boston during the early nineteenth century. |
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| | Aberdeen Unitarian Church |
| | Unitarianism was developed out of Christianity but regards Jesus as a man and teacher and not as a God to be worshipped. | | | Unitarianism is a religious movement in which we are all free to follow our own reason. | | | If you are looking for a church that is liberal, which welcomes diversity and is open to insights from world faiths, reason and science we may be the church for you. |
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http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ammspeed/aberdeen-unitarians
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| | Unitarian Society |
| | However, Unitarians tend to believe that Jesus Christ was a human religious leader to be followed but not worshipped. | | | Unitarians believed that social evils were humanly created, not God inflicted, and therefore could be remedied by human efforts. | | | In fact, the most important aspect of Unitarianism is the right of individuals to develop their own religious opinions. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRunitarian.htm
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| | Lene Shoemaker: A Short Overview of Unitarianism in Denmark |
| | The Danish Unitarian Church is a member church of the British General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (BGAUFCC), with full membership and voting status. | | | Furthermore, the Danish Unitarian Church was one of the original founding members of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU), an organization who provides religious education and leadership training to promote our liberal faith, and assist members in areas where religious liberals are discriminated against. | | | The Danish Unitarian Church was founded in 1900. |
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http://home10.inet.tele.dk/unitar/inetuk.htm
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| | UNITARIANISM--WHAT IS IT? Davies Memorial UU Church in Prince George's Co., MD |
| | They are committed by the Unitarian inheritance, consecrated by the multitude of Unitarian social pioneers; they are committed by the very nature of their covenant, which is universal in its brotherhood; they are committed by the living conscience of the age in which they live, as Unitarians have always been before them. | | | It is the most affirmative of all religions, the boldest in its claim, and the widest in its outreach and inclusiveness. | | | Unitarians, therefore, are disciples not of a person or an institution, but of truth itself. |
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| | About Unitarianism |
| | I mean it's hoped that a Unitarian Buddhist and a Unitarian Christian differ from the Buddhist and Christian on the basis that each attends a Unitarian setting and each benefits from the company and expression of the other, and presumably they reject the exclusivity of being in their own groups. | | | I mean the beliefs of people in a Unitarian church are going to be on the fringes of other institutions or because they want to engage with people of different views. | | | Unitarianism provides places for doing worship, and is the core function, as well as providing subsidiary functions.It is creedless. |
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http://www.change.freeuk.com/learning/relthink/unithink.html
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| | Conrad Wright: Historian of American Unitarianism |
| | Unitarian Universalists are, that is to say, of the religion of Emerson, Parker, Thoreau, and Fuller. | | | Moreover, Wright's knowledge that Unitarianism is anchored in this congregational past has allowed him to comment with unusual lucidity on one of the most persistent tensions in Unitarianism, the relative roles of the individual congregant and the larger congregation. | | | This emphasis, when applied to the concerns of contemporary Unitarian Universalism, has generated Wright's most prophetic work, his reexamination of the problems entailed by the privileged place of individualism within American liberal religion, and his call for a renewed doctrine of the church. |
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http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/wright-conrad.html
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| | Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship: Unitarian History |
| | Unitarianism continues to survive in Transylvania as a very traditional church run by bishops with "God is One" over each church door, and men and women sitting separately. | | | In this climate other churches took over major planks in the Unitarian and Universalist platforms: belief in a loving rather than a harsh God, belief in human agency to deal with earthly problems, belief that the Christian duty was to try to bring heaven to earth, and so on. | | | Turning now to the United States and particularly to the Unitarians (The Universalists traveled a parallel course, the chief differences being that the Universalists stressed that a loving God wanted all his children to make it to Heaven, and appealed to a more rural clientele than the Unitarians). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Unitarians |
| | The number of persons holding Unitarian views cannot be determined, even approximately; for many undoubtedly reject the doctrine of the Three Divine Persons and retain the belief in a uni-personal Godhead without ever affiliating with the Church. | | | This teaching concerning the mission of Jesus Christ is but the logical complement of the Unitarian denial of the Fall of Man and with similar consistency leads to the suppression of the sacraments. | | | While the diffusion of Unitarian ideas was comparitively rapid the organization of churches was retarded by the reluctance of many to separate from the Congregationalist communities of which they were members. |
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| | Why UU Humanism Requires Rejecting Our Humanity |
| | Although there is renewed interest in the traditional Unitarian understanding of God, the primary cause, so far, of a resurgence in “spirituality” with Unitarian Universalism that some have observed is, in the author’s judgment, the new prominence of new age, pagan, Wiccan, other “earth centered” and Buddhist practice and beliefs within UU congregations. | | | He was secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference for 11 years, editor of Unity for 8 years and one of four members of the Unitarian Commission on Hymns and Services that created, with the Universalists, Hymns of the Spirit that served as the Unitarian and Universalist hymnal until well after the 1961 merger. | | | Unitarian Minister E. Burdette Backus wrote, “I belong to a fellowship that is greater than that of any religion that has ever existed. |
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http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/humanism4.htm
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| | UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST |
| | Unitarianism Universalism is an unusual religious organization, because it does not require its adherents to adhere to specific beliefs. | | | The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (commonly called the Unitarian Universalist Association or UUA) is a liberal religious organization, serving the Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations of North America. | | | Note: These banners are not directly related to Unitarian Universalism. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/u-u.htm
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| | Unitarianism |
| | Unitarianism took hold in the liberal wing of the Congregational churches of New England. | | | Unitarianism welcomes a fresh voice in Forrester Church, a famous son with a fitting name. | | | Channing's statement of Unitarian beliefs became the platform of the denomination. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0850051.html
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| | Edmund Kell Unitarian Church |
| | Above all, members of Unitarian churches strongly accept the Freedom to determine one's own beliefs, the Reason behind those beliefs and the Tolerance to accept the beliefs of other people. | | | As a consequence, a range of beliefs in terms of theism and religious aspects together with thoughts on social and humanitarian concerns occupy the thoughts of the congregations. | | | Different Unitarians believe different things, and it requires study, thought, contemplation and, perhaps, meditation and prayer to begin to see that this does not lead to unstructured and undefined |
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http://www.swanmore.freeola.com/unitarianism/unitarianism.htm
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| | Unitarianism and Unitarian congregations in South Africa |
| | Our web site is designed for Unitarians and those who are dissatisfied with their existing religion or religious faith and are seeking information about other religious beliefs. | | | Welcome to Unitarian South Africa - we will not 'bang on your door' - only offer information about Unitarianism and different religions and faiths. | | | Your answers may well help you discover which faith or religion you are closest to. |
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http://www.unitarian.co.za
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| | "The Cradle of Unitarianism" |
| | And there Unitarianism -- a religion grounded on the principles of freedom and reason -- took root for the first time since Unitarian heretics were banished by the Church a thousand years before. | | | For most Unitarians in the twenty-first century, Unitarianism is a very modern religion. | | | Today in Kolozsvar (Cluj), the Unitarian Church is still the largest church in town, Unitarianism is still the leading religion, and there is even a Unitarian seminary and college in town. |
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| | Unitarianism In America |
| | Unitarianism in this country presents an attempt to bring religion into harmony with philosophy and science, and to reconcile Christianity with the modern spirit. | | | In this way Unitarianism had its origin, in the teachings of men who were counted orthodox in England, but who favored submitting all theological problems to the test of reason. | | | It was not a sectarian movement in its origin or at any time during the eighteenth century; but it was an effort to make religion practical, to give it a basis in reality, and to establish it as acceptable to the sound judgment and common sense of all men. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8unit10h.htm
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| | The Fatherhood of God - Sermon USH |
| | As to the Doctrine of the Trinity, Channing argued that it is a later church deviation from the teachings Jesus and of the early church. | | | In 1867 the Free Religious Association was formed, which welded the humanistic revolt against Christianity into a single movement based on individual freedom of belief, the scientific study of religion, and the conviction that a single, universal spirit underlay all historic faiths. | | | One of the “infidels” mentioned in the article was the Rev. John Sherman of Mansfield, CT, who in 1804 was suspended by his county's ministerial association for openly denying the Doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ. |
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http://www.ushartford.com/fatherhoodofman.html
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| | Unitarianism |
| | Although Unitarianism began as a "a scripturally oriented movement," by the mid-nineteeth century "the leadership of James Martineau in England and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in the United States" transformed it into a religion of reason (Columbia Encyclopedia). | | | And the Oxford English Dictionary defines a Unitarian as one "who affirms the unipersonality of the Godhead, especially as opposed to an orthodox Trinitarian; spec. | | | While there were previous antitrinitarian movements in the early Christian Church, like Arianism and Monarchianism, modern Unitarianism originated in the period of the Protestant Reformation" (Columbia Encyclopedia). |
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http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/unitarian.html
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| | American Unitarian Conference |
| | Both Deism and Unitarianism present a positive, practical view of religion that successfully combines Faith and Reason. | | | The Western Conference, a group organized to spread Unitarianism westward, also endured tensions between Christians and "scientific theists" who were de facto Deists. | | | Generally reject the infallibility of revealed scriptures (James Freeman Clarke Manual on Unitarian Belief "Unitarians do not believe in the infallibility of the Bible. |
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http://www.americanunitarian.org/demaydeism.htm
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| | Channing and Unitarianism |
| | That Tocqueville saw Unitarianism as an intellectual and religious curiosity is clear. | | | He saw Unitarianism as the last bridge between Christianity and natural religion. | | | In his interview with John Quincy Adams, Tocqueville asked, "do you not see in the Unitarianism of this country the last link that separates Christianity from natural religion?" |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/channing.html
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| | Unitarians, Unitarians Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area |
| | Meet other local people interested in Unitarian Universalism, who believe in supporting each person's search for truth, a respect for the world's religions and the interdependent web of life, and the democratic process. | | | 482 Unitarians, friends, and people who want to learn more. | | | James Forrester, The Orlando Unitarian Universalists Meetup Group |
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http://unitarians.meetup.com
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| | Unitarian Christianity |
| | Return to William Ellery Channing and American Unitarianism | | | There is much reason to believe, that Christianity is at this moment dishonored by gross and cherished corruptions. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/unitarian.html
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| | Unitarian Universalist Association |
| | The Consultation on Ministry to and with Youth is designed to be a grassroots process – beginning with individuals and congregations and progressing to the larger institutions and organizations that provide services and support to the grassroots. | | | Have you ever wondered, "What is Unitarian Universalist youth ministry like in congregations throughout the Association? | | | (Boston, MA — March 6, 2006) The Rev. William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, today announced the name of the UUA's new Director of Ministry and Professional Leadership. |
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| | Our Unitarian Heritage by Earl Morse Wilbur |
| | Our Unitarian Heritage by Earl Morse Wilbur, presented in HTML format by Starr King School for the Ministry, uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. | | | Click here to open the frame set built to read this document. | | | Text taken from a 1925 original copy of Earl Morse Wilbur's Our Unitarian Heritage. |
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