The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

#*:" Like many others of his time ( he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America ), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership.

He regularly attended Joseph Priestley's Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley's theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian.

His work, the Jefferson Bible, was Unitarian in theology ..."

Unitarian Universalists do not share a creed ; rather, they are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth and by the understanding that an individual's theology is a result of that search and not obedience to an authoritarian requirement.

There are separate movements and organizations of Christians who hold to classical Unitarian or Christian Universalist theology and do not belong to the Unitarian Universalist Association or consider themselves UUs.

Unitarian theology, therefore, is distinguishable from the belief system of modern Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships.

This article includes information about Unitarianism as a theology and about the development of theologically Unitarian churches.

Harvard Divinity school then shifted from its conservative roots to teach Unitarian theology.

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.

The church, and its ' related ministries developed due to the lack of actual Unitarian churches that profess Christian theology.

Socinian theology continued in Transylvania, where Polish exiles such as Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr. taught in the Unitarian College ( 1726 – 1740 ), as evidenced in the Summa Universae Theologiae Christianae secundum Unitarios of Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám recognized as the statement of faith of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania by Emperor Joseph II in 1782.

In another strain of change, the first church in the United States with an openly Unitarian theology, the belief in the single personality of God, was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1785 ( in a former Anglican parish.

Prompted by a controversy over an appointment in the theology school at Harvard, in 1825 the Unitarian churches separated from Congregationalism.

James Russell Lowell was born February 22, 1819, the son of the Reverend Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. ( 1782 – 1861 ), a minister at a Unitarian church in Boston who had previously studied theology at Edinburgh, and Harriett Brackett Spence Lowell.

Visiting other churches while traveling abroad, Aglipay developed his theology, coming to reject the divinity of Jesus and the concept of the Trinity and becoming theologically Unitarian.

John Lindell, a former Methodist and Unitarian Universalist pastor, advocates Christian deism, which does not include the Old Testament as part of its theology.

While visiting other churches while travelling abroad, Aglipay rejected the Trinity, becoming theologically Unitarian, however the church refused to accepted his amended theology.

These ranged from works of theology in the Unitarian tradition to specific moral advice to young people.

King's Chapel is " an independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is " unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance.

Not explicitly a Universalist theology, this view, however, does not preclude a belief that God also has a relationship with other peoples — rather, Judaism holds that God had entered into a covenant with all humanity as Noachides, and that Jews and non-Jews alike have a relationship with God, as well as being universal in the sense that it is open to all mankind.

In Christian theology, universal reconciliation ( also called universal salvation, Christian universalism, or in context simply universalism ) is the doctrine that all sinful and alienated human souls — because of divine love and mercy — will ultimately In Universalist literature a German Anabaptist Hans Denck has been commonly cited as a universalist, but recent research suggests that " probably he was not ".

As a scholar of theology, Reeb grew away from traditionalist Presbyterian teachings and was drawn to the Unitarian Universalist church.

J. W. Hanson ( 1899 ) and other Universalist Church of America historians read that Marcellus's theology included a belief in universalism, that all people would eventually be saved.

Bede also wrote homilies, works written to explain theology used in worship services.

One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.

According to the theology of the Deuteronomists the terms of the treaty with Yahweh were that he would preserve both the city and the king in return for their worship and obedience to the law-code.

The honor given to these beings is defined in Catholic theology as dulia, or veneration, whereas adoration or worship ( latria ) is reserved for the Trinity alone.

However there is no known unified theology, just a set of related and evolving traditions of worship.

This section focuses on the expression of faith in the public venue – the institutional church, the councils of the church, worship, ministry, and sacramental theology.

According to Saiva Siddhanta, which was for many centuries the dominant school of Shaiva theology and liturgy across the Indian subcontinent ( and beyond it in Cambodia ), the linga is the ideal substrate in which the worshipper should install and worship the five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva, the form of Shiva who is the focal divinity of that school of Shaivism.

Adoration, which is known as latria in classical theology, is the worship and homage that is rightly offered to God alone.

Some schools of theology use the term " worship " to introduce both adoration and veneration.

Relying on arguments from etymology and the use of forensic techniques to uncover what he calls ' iconotropic ' redaction of original myths, Graves argues for the worship of a single goddess under many names, an idea that came to be known as " Matriarchal religion " in feminist theology of the 1970s.

Adoration, which is known as latria in classical theology, is the worship and homage that is rightly offered to God alone.

Some schools of theology use the term " worship " to introduce both adoration and veneration.

Protestant theology usually denies that any real distinction between veneration and worship can be made, and claims that the practice of veneration distracts the Christian soul from its true object, the worship of God.

There are quite a number of Spiritualist churches which are explicitly Christian in theology, forms of worship and praise, and liturgical orientation.

The sermon on The Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, in 1853, first formulated the doctrine round which almost all the subsequent theology of his followers revolved, and which revolutionized the practices of Anglican worship.

The church drew upon the Masonic Code for concepts of theology and worship.

This is not interpreted as an imitation of cultural norms or trends that are not part of the legislated worship of Islam but rather as an adherence to Islamic theology.

Each local congregation is free to determine matters of worship, practice, theology and ministry providing they meet certain basic requirements involving open access to communion and subscription to the traditional Christian creeds.

While many Neopagans are not Wiccan, and within Neopaganism the practices and theology vary widely, many Wiccans and other neopagans worship the " Triple Goddess " of maiden, mother, and crone, a practice going back to mid-twentieth-century England.

Here he was able to focus for the first time on teaching theology, and he was deeply influenced by his encounters with Anglicanism and with ecumenical worship.

This was done at first by the early church out of what appeared to be necessity, but Rauschenbusch calls Christians to return to the doctrine of “ the kingdom of God .” Of course, such a replacement has cost theology and Christians at large a great deal: the way we view Jesus and the synoptic gospels, the ethical principles of Jesus, and worship rituals have all been affected by this replacement.

Union has a faculty of scholars in the fields of Bible, Christian education, theology, ethics, preaching, worship, church history, Christian leadership and pastoral care.

During the series of doctrinal and ecclesiastic challenges to the established church in the 17th century, commentators and others began to refer to those groups favouring the theology, worship and hierarchical structure of Anglicanism ( such as the episcopate ) as the truest form of Christianity as ' high church '.