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Morality involves right acting, while religion requires love of God and regular prayer, which Parker considered essential to human life. "No feeling is more deeply planted in human nature than the tendency to adore a superior being," he preached, "to reverence him, to bow before him, to feel his presence, to pray to him for aid in times of need ...
Unitarianism (from Latin unitas 'unity, oneness') is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity. [1] Unitarian Christians affirm the unitary nature of God as the singular and unique creator of the universe, [1] believe that Jesus Christ was inspired by God in his moral teachings and that he is the savior of humankind, [1] [2] [3] but he is not equal to God himself.
Reverend William Ellery Channing by Gilbert Charles Stuart, c. 1815.Oil on canvas. Housed at De Young Museum.. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.
The Unitarians and Universalists are groups that existed long before the creation of Unitarian Universalism. Early Unitarians did not hold Universalist beliefs, and early Universalists did not hold Unitarian beliefs. But beginning in the nineteenth century the theologies of the two groups started becoming more similar. Additionally, their ...
A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism, with John A. Buehrens, Beacon Press, 1998 (ISBN 0807016160) The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic Primer, 2002 (ISBN 0-312-30344-0) So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State, 2007 (ISBN 978-0151011858)
Unitarian Universalism was formed from the consolidation in 1961 of two historically separate Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, [5] both based in the United States; the new organization formed in this merger was the Unitarian Universalist Association. [20]
In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association. [1] The defining theology of Universalism 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 ...
Biblical unitarianism [1] (otherwise capitalized as biblical Unitarianism, [2] [3] sometimes abbreviated as BU) [4] is a Unitarian Christian tradition whose adherents affirm the Bible as their sole authority, and from it base their beliefs that God the Father is one singular being, [1] and that Jesus Christ is God's son but not divine. [1]