U·ni·tar·i·an

(yo͞o′nĭ-târ′ē-ən)

1. An adherent of Unitarian Universalism.

2. A monotheist who is not a Christian.

3. A Christian who is not a Trinitarian.

[From New Latin ūnitārius, monotheist, from Latin ūnitās, unity; see unity.]

U′ni·tar′i·an adj.

U′ni·tar′i·an·ism n.

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unitarianism

(ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any unitary system, esp of government

Unitarianism

(ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm)

1. (Christian Churches, other) a system of Christian belief that maintains the unipersonality of God, rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and takes reason, conscience, and character as the criteria of belief and practice

2. (Theology) a system of Christian belief that maintains the unipersonality of God, rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and takes reason, conscience, and character as the criteria of belief and practice

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Unitarianism

the beliefs, principles, and practices of the Unitarian denomination, especially its doctrine that God is one being, and its emphasis upon autonomous congregational government. — Unitarian, n., adj.

Unitarianism

[ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪənɪzəm] N → unitarismo m

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Unitarianism

n → Unitarismus m

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Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.

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Briefly, Robert Elsmere, a priest of the Anglican Church, marries a very religious woman; there is the perfection of "mutual love"; at length he has doubts about "historic Christianity"; he gives up his orders; carries his learning, his fine intellect, his goodness, nay, his saintliness, into a kind of Unitarianism; the wife becomes more intolerant than ever; there is a long and faithful effort on both sides, eventually successful, on the part of these mentally [66] divided people, to hold together; ending with the hero's death, the genuine piety and resignation of which is the crowning touch in the author's able, learned, and thoroughly sincere apology for Robert Elsmere's position.

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Bressler challenges the common assumption that only superficial differences separated early Universalism from Unitarianism, which originated at about the same time in the same region of the country.

The Universalist Movement in America: 1770-1880

The Road to Reason is a collection of vibrant essays spanning 2.5 millennia--from Buddha, Confucius, Lucretius, and the Epicurean humanism of Omar Khyyam to Renaissance humanism and Unitarianism, David Hume, John Dewey on the humanist commitment to science and democracy, Albert Schweitzer, Julian Huxley, Sartre, and Camus to the modern humanist thought of Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Edward O.

The Road to Reason: Landmarks in the Evolution of Humanist Thought

It might be more aptly named "A Survey of American Religious Thought: Deism, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and Pragmatism." The bulk of the work consists of chapters summarizing the religious thought of Benjamin Franklin, militant Deism, Unitarianism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Orestes Brownson, Francis Ellingwood Abbott, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Josiah Royce.

VARIETIES OF TRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCE: A STUDY IN CONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERNISM

religious stepchild, Unitarianism. It too had roots in the sixteenth

Commerce, Industry, and the Laws of Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised

The family were also Dissenters, following the teachings of Unitarianism rather than conventional Anglicanism.

Heroes to swoon over; Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. By Rictor Norton (Leicester University Press, pounds 17.99). Reviewed by Christine Barker

Derived from a letter of Adams to James, the term "improvised Europeans" is used to characterize a particular type of mid-19th-century American, "molded by Boston, Harvard, and Unitarianism," and "brought up in irritable dislike of America." Zwerdling employs the term in a more expansive sense for his literary expatriates, who felt compelled to come to terms with themselves, their talents, and their ambitions by moving to Europe.

Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London

Hostilities reached their zenith in 1815 with the publication of a tract by Morse entitled Review of American Unitarianism, which flatly accused the liberals of infidelity.(8) Until this point, liberals had not done much by way of responding to conservative attacks.

Who were the evangelicals?: conservative and liberal identity in the Unitarian controversy in Boston, 1804-1833

A trip to the Middle East in 1846 led her to study the evolution of religions and to become increasingly skeptical of religious beliefs, including her own liberal Unitarianism. Her chief historical work, The History of the Thirty Years' Peace, A.D.

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