Unitarianism

The Church has consistently rejected any ideology that was unbalanced towards diversity and unity. Lossky explains this issue by focusing on the two extreme ideologies, “Unitarianism has often assumed the aspect of an absolute Monarchianism: there is only one person in God…Its most perfect expression was in the third century, the modalism of Sabellius” (37). In this view Sabellius makes God impersonal and views the trinity as three different modes of actions rather than beings. These three different modes appear as God moves from one era to the next in order to fulfill a mission. There is no relation to the divine being as personal but rather as a divine entity that is working in different eras to complete an objective. While this heresy focused on the “unity” of the Trinity by referring to God as one impersonal being, the other extreme heresy would divide the Trinity so that there is clear subordination. An obvious…

she sounded like a goat, but that did not stop her. The Catholic Church, of which she was a staunch member, did not stop her. This story of my grandmother on insistence on defining who she was parallelled her story of defying female genital mutilation in my family. After my grandfather’s death, she was afraid that tribal patriarchs would take over her family and send my mother to lebollo, where she would be mutilated. Therefore, she and my mother fled on horseback to a village which was about…

Unitarianism According to Wikipedia and (D. Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists, Greenwood Press, 1985, pp.3, 17) Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, namely God the Holy Father, which exists separately from Jesus being God the Holy Son. Unitarianism is also known for rejecting of several Orthodox doctrines besides the Trinity, which includes the soteriological doctrines of the original sin and predestination. The origin…

He became the minister of a Boston parish in 1803. Cultured, eloquent, and a persuasive writer, he became famed throughout New England for his oratorical gifts and as a theologian. In seriousness of purpose and in purity of character, Channing represented the strength and virtue of the old Puritan stock. His portrait, presenting him in the conventional black gown of the clergyman with the white bands at the neck, shows a face highly intellectual and refined, with features delicate, spiritual,…

John Adams was born, October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts and also had two siblings, Peter Adams and Elihu Adams. John Adams grew up in a religious home with his father serving as a church deacon. He attended a private school in Braintree and he would eventually graduate from Harvard, at age 20, and receive a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) and M.A. (Master of Arts). He married Abigail Smith on October 25, 1764 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. John Adams had been married to her for 54 years and…

Each religion has their own set of beliefs and traditions that differ from one religion to another, however, this is not exactly the case in Unitarian Universalism. Unitarian Universalists embrace diversity in all categories namely beliefs, backgrounds, culture, and sexuality.[1][2] Unitarian Universalism derived from the two religions, Unitarianism and Universalism which merged in 1961.[3] Though there are a variety of beliefs, Unitarian Universalists are bound to fulfill and practice seven…

1. Identify the strengths / weaknesses Linus’s understanding of the Trinity is related to Modalism, which teaches the Trinity is not three distinct persons, but acts in three different forms or modes, and of Tritheism, which says there is three different God, not one God. As a children’s minister, his suggestion of bring realistic visual materials might be effective for children’s understanding. However, to present an apple or glass of water with ice denies each only one God and the…

American transcendentalism is the movement begin in the mid of 1830s and the mid of 1840s, as a religious and a philosophical discussion by few ministers and has gained a lot of importance and became a dominant movement. The Transcendentalism movement is closely related to Unitarianism, in the early nineteenth century which was the very dominant and the powerful religious movement in Boston. It started to develop in the aftermath of Unitarianism taking hold at Harvard University. Many great…

The Enlightenment was a movement in the western world that put into emphasis the ideas of using science and reason, as well as the rights of citizens under a governments rule. The first nation to totally adopt this sort of foundation was the early American government. During the early 18th century the colonies were widely influenced by the Age of Reason which brought scientists such as Isaac Newton and philosophers such as John Locke to light. At the time, the many of the colonies, especially…

I decided to focus my posting on Ralph Waldo Emerson. I will explore Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life and the theoretical underpinnings of his work. Emerson was the most remarkable essayist in the nineteenth-century. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was an Unitarian minister. Emerson graduated from the prestigious Harvard. He went back to Harvard for their Divinity School, and learned the liberal Christianity of Unitarianism. An interesting fact about Emerson is in 1829, he became…