Report of the Convention of Unitarian Churches Held in New York, on the 5th and 6th of April, 1865, and of the Organization of the National Conference
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Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Conference of Unitarian Churches
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Conrad Wright
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781558961555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWright's Unitarian thought from 1805 to 1961 is essentials to any UU history library.
Author: Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-11-11
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0739188933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Protestants sought, which was to establish the Bible as the primary authority, only to find that the task was not so simple as they had hoped. This book revisits the story of nineteenth century American Unitarianism, proposing that Unitarianism was founded and shaped by the twin hopes of maintaining biblical authority and committing to total free inquiry. This story fits into the larger narrative of Protestantism, which, this book argues, has been defined by a deep devotion to the singular authority of the Bible (sola scriptura) and, conversely, a troubling ambivalence as to how such authority should function. How, in other words, can a book serve as a source of authority? This work traces the greater narrative of biblical authority in Protestantism through the story of four main Unitarian figures: William Ellery Channing, Andrews Norton, Theodore Parker, and Frederic Henry Hedge. All four individuals played a central role, at different times, in shaping Unitarianism, and in determining how exactly religious authority functioned in their nascent denomination. Besides these central figures, the book goes both backward, examining the evolution of biblical authority from the late medieval period in Europe to the early nineteenth century in America, and forward, exploring the period of Unitarian experimentation of religious authority in the late nineteenth century. The book also brings the book firmly into the present, exploring how questions about the Bible and religious authority are being answered today by contemporary Unitarian Universalists. Overall, this book aims to bring the American Unitarians firmly back into the historical and historiographical conversation, not as outliers, but as religious people deeply committed to solving the Protestant dilemma of religious authority.
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 720
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Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780865542365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is based on Sydney Ahlstrom's 1951 Harvard dissertation. The biography of Francis Ellingwood Abbot has been completely rewritten to focus on the context of his life and, as such, provides a vista into the intellectual and religious world of America in the late nineteenth century. Ahlstrom and one of his former students, Robert Bruce Mullin, began reworking the dissertation in 1983.
Author: American Unitarian Association
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 632
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Author: Margaret Bendroth
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-08-12
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 146962401X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 758
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