There were several different forms of Christology in the beginnings of the Unitarian movement ; ultimately, the variety that became prevalent was that Jesus was a man, but one with a unique relationship to God.

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.

* Those groups with early Unitarian or Socinian Christology such as Christadelphians and the Church of God General Conference identify the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament much as Jews do, simply as angels.

Conversely, though every president from Washington to John Quincy Adams can be definitely assigned membership in an Anglican or Unitarian body, the significance of these affiliations is often downplayed as unrepresentative of their true beliefs.

Adopted in 1960, the full Principles, Purposes and Sources can be found in the article on the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Unitarian Universalists tend to promote beliefs of a person that are based on their individual thoughts, and can range from strict monotheistic belief to less credal or more inclusive views.

Unitarian Universalists believe that the divine can be found in all people and in many faiths.

Unitarian can refer to:

This later passed into Unitarian hands, and a new chapel on the original site can be visited.

It can also more broadly refer to a church which is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association or the Canadian Unitarian Council.

In 1740, a school was founded by the Unitarian minister of Hale – a time when education was a rare commodity – and can be seen on a map of 1800 along with a tithe barn, two inns, five farms, four cottages, the school house and school rooms.

The First Unitarian Church ( situated on the northeast corner of 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue ) can be seen in the background.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

In 1946 The Commission on the Work of the Churches of the British Unitarians recommended that “ the Assembly should interest itself in the formation of a Canadian Unitarian Association which many Unitarians there believe to be necessary .”

It is quite evident in the words of this statement, which was adopted by the attendees of the 2001 youth conference held at the Unitarian Church of Montreal: " We the youth of Canada are deeply concerned about the direction the CUC seems to be taking.

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.

In the often-quoted words of Thomas Starr King, pastor of the San Francisco Unitarian Church at the beginning of the Civil War: " The Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them, and the Unitarians believe they are too good to be damned!

William G. Sinkford, is African-American, making Unitarian Universalism one of the first traditionally white denominations to be headed by a member of a racial minority.

Christians who hold these beliefs tend to consider themselves the true Unitarians or Universalists and heirs of the theological legacy of the original American Unitarian Association or Universalist Church of America, and they do not wish to be confused with UUs and UUism.

In that case it would be a nontrinitarian belief system not necessarily associated with the Unitarian religious movement.

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.

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.

Despite the close friendship and shared heritage that exists between adherents to Unitarian Universalism and Unitarian Christianity, there is an element within Unitarian Universalism that opposes specifically Unitarian Christian groups, believing them to be exclusive and intolerant of non-Christian thought.

Stevenson again won the nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, becoming the last Unitarian to be nominated for the presidency by a major party.

Wellbeloved did not allow the school to be called Unitarian because he wanted students to have an open mind and to discover the truth for themselves.

It drew many luminaries of the day, such as the natural philosopher and Unitarian theologian Joseph Priestley, and came to be known as " the Athens of the North " for its stimulating intellectual atmosphere.

Although the Polish Brethren never adopted the name " Unitarian " while in Poland, when they were disbanded in 1658, those who fled to Holland eventually embraced the term " Unitarian " ( which they got from the Transylvanians ), as they did not prefer to be called " Socinians.

Around this time Presbyterian / Unitarian opinion was once again divided about how far the denomination should be associated with the label ' Unitarian ’.

Half the population of the town professes Roman Catholicism ( 50. 05 %), while the remaining half is primarily divided between Hungarian Reformed ( 30. 14 %), Unitarian ( 14. 71 %), and Romanian Orthodox ( 2. 54 %) communities.

* The Unitarian Church of Transylvania is divided into five Archpriestships as a form of governance.

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.

He had been an adherent of the Unitarian Church, but according to one source he later found solace in Roman Catholicism.

William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

For example, the Unitarian movement has never accepted the Godhood of Jesus, and therefore does not include those nontrinitarian belief systems which do — such as Oneness Pentecostalism, United Pentecostal Church International and the True Jesus Church — that maintain that Jesus is God as a single person.

If they adhered to mainstream faiths, hippies were likely to embrace Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, Hinduism and the restorationist Christianity of the Jesus Movement.

There are many churches in Kennebec county, the largest being: Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, Church of the Nazarene, Church of Christ, Adventist and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).

Other churches include St. George Greek Orthodox, Bloomfield Hills Baptist, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church ( ELCA ) on Adamds Road ( Bloomfield Township ), Detroit Michigan Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Birmingham Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue.

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.

" The seceders from his communion accused him of denying the orthodox doctrine of the union of the Divine and the human natures in the Man Christ Jesus — not indeed in a Unitarian, but in a Gnostic sense.

The ACLU and the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, among others ( including her successor Rocky Anderson ), were upset with a deal she negotiated on behalf of the city to sell a block of Main Street — then city property — adjacent to Temple Square to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Haetzer regarded Jesus as a leader and teacher only ; not divine and not an object of worship, therefore an anti-trinitarian and possibly a Unitarian.

* ‘ A Vindication of the Worship of the Lord Jesus Christ, on Unitarian Principles ,’ & c., 1706 ( anon.