Unitarianism

Historically, it is accepted by many, that the Protestant Movement started the instant that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door. The roots of Protestantism, however, go far deeper than simply this outrage; with a series of events leading up to the eventual religious split from the Catholic Church. Beginning with the three simultaneously reigning Popes in the early 15th century, many including Luther, felt the Church become more and more corrupt. Arguably, what disgruntled many…

In the Ethics of Philosophy, Utilitarianism is the doctrine that our actions are correct if the result of our actions produces the greatest happiness between the majorities. However, in: "What's going on with Slavery?" Some objectivist utilitarianism tried to deny this morality, which reflects on the estate of any importance accusing the terrible actions of slave merchants and slave owners in utilitarianism. They attack this doctrine by saying that utilitarianism is a belief system that he can…

Ralph Waldo Emerson started his ministry as a Unitarian but soon broke away from the Unitarianism and becoming very influential with the rise of Transcendentalism. Emerson talks a lot about nature in religion and the importance of the world around. In the first selection Nature is about how nature relates to God and how people should see God though nature. In the last section Self-Reliance Emerson has some parallels to Benjamin Franklin view of religion and nature interconnected. In Nature…

Throughout the course of history, oppression and prejudice often characterize the trend of imperialism. Although colonialism may produce the growth of an empire, it is usually at the cost of the indigenous. Despite this, native minorities in the Iberian Peninsula maintained hope that the Islamic Empire would benefit their situation, an expectation that the Muslim conquerors soon fulfilled. Beginning an age of Iberian prosperity and establishing a flourishing empire, the Umayyad imperialism of…

Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, A Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone, is a truly rare and provocative book that is an essential for all historians alike. The “Fearless Scholar” of Out of the Flames is the Spanish physician and theologian, Michael Servetus, born on September 29th, 1511, in Villanueva de Sijena. The title of the book successfully summarizes Servetus’ life and yet also reflects the Goldstones’ style…

for crabs and became a very well rounded sailor. He contracted a double hernia which always had him in eye range of his mother and his five older sisters. His grandfather William Greenleaf Eliot was known as the protégé of the dean of American Unitarianism “Unitarian Universalism is a liberal…

I came to Seattle when I was eighteen and had a broad imagination of how the city was going to look, how the people are, and how my life is going to be. As an international student, I was introduced to the Western culture through music and movies. As a teenage girl I thought everyone in the United States lived like Hollywood movie stars. When I came to Seattle I saw homeless individuals in the first week that walked the streets, were dressed, and were fed by local non-profit organizations. Yet,…

U Unitarians This 19th century movement began in Boston, USA, with the attempt by William Channing to preach a ‘’Unitarian Christianity.’’ This was to make the faith ‘’reasonable’’ by rejecting all miraculous elements of the New Testament and of Christian doctrine. Thus the Trinity is rejected because if God is one then God is not three; if Jesus is a man, he cannot also be God. Channing and those who followed his teaching trusted in human progress to reach moral decisions and not on…

David Yang AP Lang Period 3/4 20 December 2014 Transcendentalism Throughout American History “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” William Butler Yeats, a famed Irish poet, believed creativity and emotion did not stem from reason and logic. His words echoed the thoughts of the Romantics, a group of early nineteenth century writers, poets and artists who defied the ideas of the Age of Reason and sought to build a new, more…

Adams grew up as a Congregationalist from Massachusetts, but, over time, transitioned to Unitarianism in a manner similar to that of Thomas Jefferson. He was strongly anti-Catholic because of the Catholic Church’s political influence, and anti-clerical because of the artificial titles and spiritual authority it gave to men. Convinced that moral…