Unitarianism (from
Latin ''unitas'' "unity, oneness", from ''unus'' "one") is a
Christian theological movement named for its belief that the
God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the
Trinity (tri- from Latin ''tres'' "three") which in most other branches of Christianity defines God as
one being in three
persons: the
Father,
Son, and
Holy Spirit.
Unitarian Christians, therefore, believe that
Jesus was
inspired by God in his moral teachings, and he is a
savior,
but he was not a
deity or
God incarnate. As is typical of
dissenters, Unitarianism does not constitute one single Christian denomination, but rather refers to a collection of both existing and extinct Christian groups, whether historically related to each other or not, which share a common theological concept of the oneness nature of
God. Unitarian communities have developed in Britain, South Africa, Central Europe, India, Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Nigeria, and Japan.
Unitarianism is also known for the rejection of several other
Western Christian doctrines, including the doctrines of
original sin,
predestination, and the
infallibility of the Bible. In
J. Gordon Melton's ''Encyclopedia of American Religions'', the Unitarian tradition is classified among "the '
liberal' family of churches". Unitarians place emphasis on the ultimate role of
reason in interpreting scriptures, and thus
freedom of conscience and freedom of the pulpit are core values in the tradition.
The movement is tied to the more radical critiques of the
Reformation, Unitarianism began almost simultaneously in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and in
Transylvania in the mid-16th century; the Christian denomination that emerged is known as the
Unitarian Church of Transylvania. Among the adherents were a significant number of Italians who took refuge in Poland. In the 17th century, significant repression in Poland led many Unitarians to flee or be killed for their faith, notably
Katarzyna Weiglowa. From the 16th to 18th centuries, Unitarians in Britain often faced significant political persecution, including
John Biddle,
Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Theophilus Lindsey. In England, the
first Unitarian Church was established in 1774 on
Essex Street, London,
where today's
British Unitarian headquarters is still located.
In the United States, different schools of Unitarian theology first spread in
New England and the mid-Atlantic states. The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by
King's Chapel in Boston, from where
James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the
prayer book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.
Terminology

Unitarianism is a
proper noun and follows the same English usage as other theologies that have developed within a religious movement (
Calvinism,
Anabaptism,
Adventism,
Wesleyanism,
Lutheranism, etc.). The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, thus occasionally it is used as a common noun that would describe any
understanding of Jesus Christ that denies the Trinity or which believes that God is only one person. In that case, it would be a
nontrinitarian belief system not necessarily associated with the Unitarian religious movement. For example, the Unitarian movement has never accepted the Godhood of Jesus, and therefore does not include those ''nontrinitarian'' belief systems that do, such as
Oneness Pentecostalism,
United Pentecostal Church International and the
True Jesus Church and the writings of
Michael Servetus, all of which maintain that Jesus is God as a single person. Recently some religious groups have adopted the 19th-century term ''
biblical unitarianism'' to distinguish their theologies from Unitarianism.
The term ''Unitarian'' is sometimes applied today to those who belong to a Unitarian church but do not hold a Unitarian theological belief. In the past, the vast majority of members of Unitarian churches were Unitarians also in theology. Over time, however, some Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists moved away from the traditional Christian roots of Unitarianism. For example, in the 1890s the American Unitarian Association began to allow non-Christian and
non-theistic churches and individuals to be part of their fellowship. As a result, people who held no Unitarian belief began to be called ''Unitarians'' because they were members of churches that belonged to the American Unitarian Association. After several decades, the non-theistic members outnumbered the theological Unitarians. For a more specific discussion of Unitarianism as it evolved into a pluralistic
liberal religious movement, see
Unitarian Universalism (and its national groups the
Unitarian Universalist Association in the United States, the
Canadian Unitarian Council in Canada, the
General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in the United Kingdom, and the
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists).
History
Unitarianism, both as a theology and as a
denominational family of churches, was defined and developed in Poland, Transylvania, England, Wales, India, Japan, Jamaica, and the United States, and beyond in the 16th centuries through the present. Although common beliefs existed among Unitarians in each of these regions, they initially grew independently from each other. Only later did they influence one another and accumulate more similarities.
The ''Ecclesia minor'' or ''Minor Reformed Church of Poland'', better known today as the
Polish Brethren, was born as the result of a controversy that started on January 22, 1556, when
Piotr of Goniądz (Peter Gonesius), a Polish student, spoke out against the
doctrine of the Trinity during the general synod of the Reformed (
Calvinist) churches of Poland held in the village of
Secemin. After nine years of debate, in 1565, the anti-Trinitarians were excluded from the existing synod of the
Polish Reformed Church (henceforth the ''Ecclesia maior'') and they began to hold their own synods as the ''Ecclesia minor''. Though frequently called "
Arians" by those on the outside, the views of
Fausto Sozzini (Faustus Socinus) became the standard in the church, and these doctrines were quite removed from Arianism. So important was Socinus to the formulation of their beliefs that those outside Poland usually referred to them as
Socinians. The Polish Brethren were disbanded in 1658 by the
Sejm (Polish Parliament). They were ordered to convert to Roman Catholicism or leave Poland. Most of them went to Transylvania or Holland, where they embraced the name "Unitarian." Between 1665 and 1668 a grandson of Socinus,
Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr., published ''
Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant'' (''Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians'' 4 vols. 1665–69).
The Unitarian Church in Transylvania was first recognized by the
Edict of Torda, issued by the
Transylvanian Diet under
Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya (January 1568),
[Earl A. Pope, "Protestantism in Romania", in Sabrina Petra Ramet (ed.), ''Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia: The Communist and Postcommunist Eras'', Duke University Press, Durham, 1992, p.160. ] and was first led by
Ferenc Dávid (a former
Calvinist bishop, who had begun preaching the new doctrine in 1566). The term "Unitarian" first appeared as ''unitaria religio'' in a document of the Diet of
Lécfalva,
Transylvania, on 25 October 1600, though it was not widely used in Transylvania until 1638, when the formal ''recepta Unitaria Religio'' was published.
The word ''Unitarian'' had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the ''
Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians'' (1665).
Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word "Unitarian" in print in English (1673), and the word first appears in a title in
Stephen Nye's ''A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians'' (1687). The movement gained popularity in England in the wake of the
Enlightenment and began to become a formal denomination in 1774 when
Theophilus Lindsey organised meetings with
Joseph Priestley, founding the first avowedly Unitarian congregation in the country. This occurred at
Essex Street Church in London.
Official
toleration came in 1813.
The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by
King's Chapel in Boston, which settled
James Freeman (1759–1835) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785. In 1800,
Joseph Stevens Buckminster became minister of the
Brattle Street Church in Boston, where his brilliant sermons, literary activities, and academic attention to the
German "New Criticism" helped shape the subsequent growth of Unitarianism in New England. Unitarian
Henry Ware (1764–1845) was appointed as the
Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard College, in 1805.
Harvard Divinity School then shifted from its conservative roots to teach Unitarian theology (see
Harvard and Unitarianism). Buckminster's close associate
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) was settled over the
Federal Street Church in Boston, 1803, and in a few years he became the leader of the Unitarian movement. A theological battle with the
Congregational Churches resulted in the formation of the
American Unitarian Association at Boston in 1825. Certainly, the unitarian theology was being "adopted" by the Congregationalists from the 1820s onwards. This movement is also evident in England at this time.
Beliefs
Christology
Unitarians believe that mainline Christianity does not adhere to strict
monotheism, but that Unitarians do by maintaining that Jesus was a great man and a
prophet of God, perhaps even a
supernatural being, but not God himself.
They believe Jesus did not claim to be God and that his teachings did not suggest the existence of a
triune God. Unitarians believe in the
moral authority but not necessarily the
divinity of Jesus. Their theology is thus opposed to the
trinitarian theology of other
Christian denominations.
Unitarian Christology can be divided according to whether or not Jesus is believed to have had a pre-human existence. Both forms maintain that
God is one being and one "person" and that Jesus is the (or a)
Son of God, but generally not God himself.
In the early 19th century, Unitarian
Robert Wallace identified three particular classes of Unitarian doctrines in history:
*
Arian, which believed in a pre-existence of the
Logos;
*
Socinian, which denied his pre-existence, but agreed that Christ should be
worshipped; and
*"Strict Unitarian", which, believing in an "incommunicable divinity of God", denied both the existence of the
Holy Spirit and the worship of "the man Christ."
Unitarianism is considered a factor in the decline of classical
deism because there were people who increasingly preferred to identify themselves as Unitarians rather than deists.
* Conservative Unitarian theology accommodates a wide range of understandings of God.
* Radical Unitarian theology further rejects the importance of dogma, liturgy, and anything other than ethics and a gospel of love.
Several tenets of Unitarianism overlap with the
predominant Muslim view of Jesus and
Islamic understanding of monotheism.
"Socinian" Christology
The Christology commonly called "
Socinian" (after
Fausto Sozzini, one of the founders of Unitarian theology) refers to the belief that Jesus Christ began his life when he was born as a human. In other words, the teaching that Jesus
pre-existed his human body is rejected. There are various views ranging from the belief that Jesus was simply a human (
psilanthropism) who, because of his greatness, was adopted by God as his Son (
adoptionism) to the belief that Jesus literally became the
son of God when he was conceived by the
Holy Spirit.
This Christology existed in some form or another prior to Sozzini.
Theodotus of Byzantium,
Artemon and
Paul of Samosata denied the pre-existence of Christ. These ideas were continued by
Marcellus of Ancyra and his pupil
Photinus in the 4th century AD. In the
Radical Reformation and
Anabaptist movements of the 16th century this idea resurfaced with Sozzini's uncle,
Lelio Sozzini. Having influenced the
Polish Brethren to a formal declaration of this belief in the
Racovian Catechism, Fausto Sozzini involuntarily ended up giving his name to this Christological position, which continued with English Unitarians such as
John Biddle,
Thomas Belsham,
Theophilus Lindsey,
Joseph Priestley, and
James Martineau. In America, most of the early Unitarians were "Arian" in Christology (see below), but among those who held to a "Socinian" view was
James Freeman.
Regarding the
virgin birth of Jesus among those who denied the preexistence of Christ, some held to it and others did not. Its denial is sometimes ascribed to the
Ebionites; however,
Origen (''Contra Celsum'' v.61) and
Eusebius (''HE'' iii.27) both indicate that some Ebionites did accept the virgin birth. On the other hand,
Theodotus of Byzantium,
Artemon, and
Paul of Samosata all accepted the virgin birth.
[ 189 pp.] In the early days of Unitarianism, the stories of the virgin birth were accepted by most. There were a number of Unitarians who questioned the historical accuracy of the Bible, including
Symon Budny,
Jacob Palaeologus, Thomas Belsham, and
Richard Wright, and this made them question the virgin birth story. Beginning in England and America in the 1830s, and manifesting itself primarily in
Transcendentalist Unitarianism, which emerged from the German liberal theology associated primarily with
Friedrich Schleiermacher, the psilanthropist view increased in popularity. Its proponents took an intellectual and humanistic approach to religion. They embraced evolutionary concepts, asserted the "inherent goodness of man", and abandoned the doctrine of biblical infallibility, rejecting most of the miraculous events in the Bible (including the virgin birth). Notable examples are
James Martineau,
Theodore Parker,
Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Frederic Henry Hedge. Famous American Unitarian
William Ellery Channing was a believer in the virgin birth until later in his life, after he had begun his association with the Transcendentalists.
"Arian" Christology
The Christology commonly called "
Arian" holds that Jesus, before his human life, existed as the
Logos, or the Word, a being created by God, who dwelt with God in heaven. There are many varieties of this form of Unitarianism, ranging from the belief that the Son was a divine spirit of the same nature as God before coming to earth, to the belief that he was an angel or other lesser spirit creature of a wholly different nature from God. Not all of these views necessarily were held by
Arius, the namesake of this Christology. It is still Nontrinitarian because, according to this belief system, Jesus has always been beneath God, though higher than humans. Arian Christology was not a majority view among Unitarians in Poland, Transylvania or England. It was only with the advent of American Unitarianism that it gained a foothold in the Unitarian movement.
Among early Christian theologians who believed in a pre-existent Jesus who was subordinate to God the Father were
Lucian of Antioch,
Eusebius of Caesarea,
Arius,
Eusebius of Nicomedia,
Asterius the Sophist,
Eunomius, and
Ulfilas, as well as
Felix, Bishop of Urgell. Proponents of this Christology also associate it (more controversially) with
Justin Martyr and
Hippolytus of Rome. Antitrinitarian
Michael Servetus did not deny the pre-existence of Christ, so he may have believed in it. (In his "Treatise Concerning the Divine Trinity" Servetus taught that the Logos (Word) was the reflection of Christ, and "that reflection of Christ was 'the Word with God" that consisted of God Himself, shining brightly in heaven, "and it was God Himself"
and that "the Word was the very essence of God or the manifestation of God's essence, and there was in God no other substance or hypostasis than His Word, in a bright cloud where God then seemed to subsist. And in that very spot the face and personality of Christ shone bright."
)
Isaac Newton had Arian beliefs as well. Famous 19th-century Arian Unitarians include
Andrews Norton and Dr.
William Ellery Channing (in his earlier years).
Other beliefs
Although there is no specific authority on convictions of Unitarian belief aside from rejection of the Trinity, the following beliefs are generally accepted:
* One God and the oneness or unity of God.
* The life and teachings of Jesus Christ constitute the exemplar model for living one's own life.
* Reason, rational thought, science, and philosophy coexist with faith in God.
* Humans have the ability to exercise
free will in a responsible, constructive and ethical manner with the assistance of religion.
*
Human nature in its present condition is neither inherently corrupt nor depraved (see
original Sin) but capable of both good and evil, as God intended.
* No religion can claim an absolute monopoly on the Holy Spirit or
theological truth.
* Though the authors of the Bible were inspired by God, they were humans and therefore subject to human error.
* The traditional
doctrines of
predestination,
eternal damnation, and the vicarious sacrifice and satisfaction theories of the
Atonement are invalid because they malign God's character and veil the true nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
Unitarians have
liberal views of God, Jesus, the
world and
purpose of life as revealed through
reason,
scholarship,
science,
philosophy,
scripture and other prophets and
religions. They believe that reason and belief are complementary and that
religion and science can co-exist and guide them in their understanding of
nature and God. They also do not enforce belief in
creeds or
dogmatic formulas. Although there is flexibility in the nuances of
belief or basic
truths for the individual Unitarian Christian, general principles of faith have been recognized as a way to bind the group in some commonality.
Unitarian Christians reject the doctrine of some Christian denominations that God chooses to
redeem or save only those certain individuals that accept the creeds of, or affiliate with, a specific church or religion, from a common ruin or corruption of the mass of humanity.
In 1938, ''The Christian leader'' attributed "''the'' religion ''of'' Jesus, not ''a'' religion ''about'' Jesus" to Unitarians, though the phrase was used earlier by
Congregationalist Rollin Lynde Hartt in 1924 and earlier still by US President Thomas Jefferson.
Worship
Worship within the Unitarian tradition accommodates a wide range of understandings of
God, while the focus of the service may be simply the celebration of life itself. Each Unitarian congregation is at liberty to devise its own form of worship, though commonly, Unitarians will light their chalice (symbol of faith), have a story for all ages; and include sermons, prayers, hymns and songs. Some will allow attendees to publicly share their recent joys or concerns.
Modern Christian Unitarian organizations

This section relates to Unitarian churches and organizations today which are still specifically Christian, whether within or outside Unitarian Universalism. Unitarian Universalism, conversely, refers to the embracing of non-Christian religions.
International groups
Some Unitarian Christian groups are affiliated with the
International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU), founded in 1995. The ICUU has "full member" groups in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, EUU, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain. Sri Lanka and the United States. Brazil is a Provisional Member
The ICUU includes small "Associate Groups", including Congregazione Italiana Cristiano Unitariana,
Turin (founded in 2004) and the Bét Dávid Unitarian Association,
Oslo (founded 2005).
Transylvania, Hungary and Romania
The largest Unitarian denomination worldwide today is also the oldest surviving Unitarian denomination (since 1565, first use of the term "Unitarian" 1600): the
Unitarian Church of Transylvania (in Romania, which is in union with the Unitarian Church in Hungary). The church in Romania and Hungary still looks to the statement of faith, the ''
Summa Universae Theologiae Christianae secundum Unitarios'' (1787), though today assent to this is not required. The modern
Unitarian Church in Hungary (25,000 members) and the
Transylvanian Unitarian Church (75,000 members) are affiliated with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) and claim continuity with the historical Unitarian Christian tradition established by
Ferenc Dávid in 1565 in
Transylvania under
John II Sigismund Zápolya. The Unitarian churches in Hungary and Transylvania are structured and organized along a church hierarchy that includes the election by the synod of a national bishop who serves as superintendent of the Church. Many Hungarian Unitarians embrace the principles of rationalist Unitarianism. Unitarian high schools exist only in Transylvania (Romania), including the
John Sigismund Unitarian Academy in
Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), the
Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj, and the Berde Mózes Unitárius Gimnázium in
Cristuru Secuiesc (Székelykeresztúr); both teach Rationalist Unitarianism.
United Kingdom

The
Unitarian Christian Association (UCA) was founded in the United Kingdom in 1991 by Rev.
Lancelot Garrard (1904–93) and others to promote specifically Christian ideas within the
General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (GAUFCC), the national Unitarian body in Great Britain. Just as the UUCF and ICUU maintain formal links with the
Unitarian Universalist Association in the US, so the UCA is an affiliate body of the GAUFCC in Great Britain.
The majority of Unitarian Christian publications are sponsored by an organization and published specifically for their membership. Generally, they do not serve as a tool for missionary work or encouraging conversions.
India
In India, three different schools of Unitarian thought influenced varying movements, including the
Brahmo Samaj, the Unitarian Church of the
Khasi Hills, and the Unitarian Christian Church of
Chennai, in Madras, founded in 1795. As of 2011, "Thirty-five congregations and eight fellowships comprising almost 10,000 Unitarians now form the Unitarian Union of North East India."
United States
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a network of liberal religious congregations affirming common ethical principles and the worth and reverence for a variety theological sources. The UUA was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of the
American Unitarian Association and the
Universalist Church of America.
Individual congregations may choose to elevate all of the sources of faith in their worship, or, in their context, move toward affirming particular sources as predominant. As of 2020, the
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) reports 187,689 individual members active in 1027 congregations.

The
Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship (UUCF) was founded in 1945, originally to support Unitarian Christians in the American Unitarian Association. The mission expanded to support Christian members of
Universalist Church of America (UCA) in the newly formed
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in 1961. UUCF continues as an affiliate of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) serving Christian members seeking to "freely follow Jesus".
The
American Unitarian Conference (AUC) was formed in 2000 and stands between UUA and ICUU in attachment to the Christian element of modern Unitarianism. The American Unitarian Conference is open to non-Christian Unitarians, being particularly popular with non-Christian
theists and
deists. As of 2009, The AUC has three congregations in the United States.
Unitarian Christian Ministries International was a Unitarian ministry incorporated in South Carolina until its dissolution in 2013 when it merged with the Unitarian Christian Emerging Church. The Unitarian Christian Emerging Church has recently undergone reorganization and today is known as the Unitarian Christian Church of America.
Australia and New Zealand
The Sydney Unitarian Church was founded 1850 under a Reverend Mr Stanley and was a vigorous denomination during the 19th century. The modern church, no longer unitarian Christian, has properties in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, and smaller congregations elsewhere in Australia and New Zealand.
South Africa
The Unitarian movement in South Africa was founded in 1867 by
David Faure, member of a well-known Cape family. He encountered advanced liberal religious thought while completing his studies at the
University of Leiden in Holland for the ministry of the
Dutch Reformed Church in
Cape Town.
Biblical Unitarian Movement
Biblical Unitarianism (or "Biblical Unitarianism" or "biblical unitarianism") identifies the
Christian belief that the
Bible teaches God is a singular person, the Father, and that
Jesus is a distinct being, his son.
A few denominations use this term to describe themselves, clarifying the distinction between them and those churches which, from the late 19th century, evolved into
modern British Unitarianism and, primarily in the United States,
Unitarian Universalism. In Italy the Biblical Unitarian Movement powered by the ideas of Sozzini and others
[cf. SocinianismServetus] is represented today by the churches associated with the
Christian Church in Italy.
Notable Unitarians

Notable Unitarians include classical composers
Edvard Grieg and
Béla Bartók;
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Theodore Parker,
Yveon Seon and
Thomas Lamb Eliot in theology and ministry;
Oliver Heaviside,
Erasmus Darwin,
Joseph Priestley,
John Archibald Wheeler,
Linus Pauling,
Sir Isaac Newton and inventor Sir
Francis Ronalds in science;
George Boole in mathematics;
Susan B. Anthony in civil government;
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,
Whitney Young of the
National Urban League, and
Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice;
John Bowring,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
Elizabeth Gaskell in literature;
Frank Lloyd Wright in the arts;
Josiah Wedgwood,
Richard Peacock and
Samuel Carter MP in industry;
Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics; and
Charles William Eliot in education.
Julia Ward Howe was a leader in the woman suffrage movement, the first ever woman to be elected to the Academy of Arts and Letters, and author of the
Battle Hymn of the Republic, volumes of poetry, and other writing. Although raised a Quaker, Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, attended the Unitarian church and was one of the founders of Ithaca's First Unitarian Church. Eramus Darwin Shattuck, a signatory to the Oregon State Constitution, founded the first Unitarian Church in Oregon in 1865.
Eleven Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Unitarians:
Robert Millikan and
John Bardeen (twice) in physics;
Emily Green Balch,
Albert Schweitzer and
Linus Pauling for peace;
George Wald and
David H. Hubel in medicine;
Linus Pauling in chemistry; and
Herbert A. Simon in economics.
Four presidents of the United States were Unitarians:
John Adams,
John Quincy Adams,
Millard Fillmore, and
William Howard Taft.
Adlai Stevenson II, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, was a Unitarian; he was the last Unitarian to be nominated by a major party for president as of 2020. Although a self-styled materialist,
Thomas Jefferson was pro-Unitarian to the extent of suggesting that it would become the predominant religion in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, although Unitarianism was the religion of only a small minority of the population, its practitioners had an enormous impact on Victorian politics, not only in the larger cities –
Birmingham,
Leeds,
Manchester and
Liverpool – but in smaller communities such as
Leicester, where there were so many Unitarian mayors that the Unitarian Chapel was known as the "Mayors' Nest".
Numerous Unitarian families were highly significant in the social and political life of Britain from Victorian times to the middle of the 20th century. They included the
Nettlefolds,
Martineaus,
Luptons,
Kitsons,
Chamberlains and Kenricks. In
Birmingham, England, a Unitarian church – the Church of the Messiah – was opened in 1862. It became a cultural and intellectual centre of a whole society, a place where ideas about society were openly and critically discussed.
Other Unitarians include Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the
World Wide Web Lancelot Ware, founder of
Mensa, Sir
Adrian Boult, the conductor,
Ray Kurzweil, notable inventor and futurist, and
C. Killick Millard, founder of the
Dignity in Dying society to support voluntary euthanasia.
Ram Mohan Roy, an Indian reformer of the 18th century, was a Unitarian who published a book called ''Precepts of Jesus''.
See also
*
Anomoeanism—radical Arians of the 4th century.
*
Binitarianism
*
Christadelphians
*
Divine simplicity
*
Jesus in Islam
*
Messianic Judaism
*
Monarchianism
*
The New Church
*
New thought
*
Nondualism
*
Nontrinitarianism
*
Non-Trinitarian churches
*
Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland, a denomination that maintains close links with Unitarianism while maintaining its own identity.
*
Sabellianism
*
Tawhid
*
Unitarian (disambiguation)
**
Unitarian church (disambiguation)
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
* .
* .
* Joseph Henry Allen, ''Our Liberal Movement in Theology'' (Boston, 1882)
* Joseph Henry Allen, ''Sequel to our Liberal Movement'' (Boston, 1897)
*
Anthony F. Buzzard and Charles F. Hunting, ''The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound'' (Lanham, Maryland, 1998). .
* John White Chadwick, ''Old and New Unitarian Belief'' (Boston, 1894).
* George Willis Cooke, ''Unitarianism in America: a History of its Origin and Development'' (Boston, 1902).
* Patrick Navas, ''Divine Truth or Human Tradition: A Reconsideration of the Roman Catholic-Protestant Doctrine of the Trinity in Light of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures'' (Bloomington, Indiana 2007). .
* Earl Morse Wilbur, ''A History of Unitarianism: Socinianism and Its Antecedents'', Harvard University Press, 1945.
* Andrew M. Hill, ''The Unitarian Path'', Lindsey Press (London, 1994). .
* Charles A. Howe, ''For Faith and Freedom: A Short History of Unitarianism in Europe'', Skinner House Books (Boston, 1997). .
*
Bibliography
* Buzzard, A. and Hunting, C. (1998). ''The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound''. International Scholars Publications. .
* Lloyd, Walter (1899). ''The Story of Protestant Dissent and English Unitarianism'' .London: P. Green.
* Rowe, Mortimer (1959)
''The Story of Essex Hall''. London: Lindsey Press.
Further reading
*
* Hewett, Austin Phillip (1955). ''An Unfettered Faith: the Religion of a Unitarian''. London: Lindsey Press.
*
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