The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

Most of the member congregations of the UUA are in the United States and Canada, but the UUA has also admitted congregations from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Pakistan ( although UUA policy appears at present to be against admitting any new congregations from outside North America, rather having them form their own national bodies and having these bodies join the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

It was the first major fellowship to organize outside of the mainstream Congregational body since 1825, when the Unitarians formally founded their own body.

By those on the outside, they were called " Arians " or " Socinians " (, ), but themselves preferred simply to be called " Brethren " or " Christians ," and, after their expulsion from Poland, " Unitarians ".

Liberalizing Unitarians rejected the Trinitarian belief in the tri-partite godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost / Spirit.

However, occasionally, especially in Protestant history, traditionally Trinitarian groups have accepted Unitarians.

For the most part, Martineau escaped the active and, on the whole, belittling period of orthodox Trinitarian churches against Unitarians, the " Socinian " controversy.

Winstanley was Trinitarian, but cautioned that a rule that held true only in the New Testament in all but the disputed cases was too flimsy a ground on which to try to prove the divinity of Christ to the Socinians ( Unitarians ).

A similar 1831 controversy about Unitarians holding significant Society offices resulted in a minority separating to form the Trinitarian Bible Society.

Toleration of worship was later extended to Protestants who did not believe in Trinitarian doctrine in the Unitarians Relief Act 1813.

Whenever New England liberalism is reminded of the dramatic confrontation of Parker and the fraternity on January 23, 1843 -- while it may defend the privilege of Chandler Robbins to demand that Parker leave the Association, while it may plead that Dr. N. L. Frothingham had every warrant for stating, `` The difference between Trinitarians and Unitarians is a difference in Christianity ; ;

New England Unitarians evolved from the Pilgrim fathers ' Congregational Christianity, which was originally based on a literal reading of the Bible.

Thus, Unitarians contend that main-line Christianity does not adhere to strict monotheism but that they do, maintaining that Jesus was a prophet, and in some sense the " son " of God, but not God himself.

Unitarians believe that main-line Christianity does not adhere to strict monotheism but that they do by maintaining that Jesus was a great man and a prophet of God, perhaps even a supernatural being, but not God himself.

That meant that Jews, Unitarians, and other dissenters from trinitarian Christianity were practicing their religions at risk to their lives.

They include within that category Unitarians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ), Jehovah's Witnesses, and some of the more radical forms of Liberal Christianity.

In the early days of Unitarianism, the stories of the virgin birth were accepted by most, but there were a number of Unitarians who questioned the historical accuracy of the Bible ( such as Symon Budny, Jacob Paleologus, Thomas Belsham, and Richard Wright ), and this made them question the virgin birth story.

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 .”

After the Second World War, the growth of the Unitarians in Canada began to show the strength which would make some Canadian organization feasible, if not imperative.

This led to the establishment of the Advocates for the Establishment of an International Organization of Unitarians ( AEIOU ), which worked towards creating the council.

The new branch that formed was the Congregational Unitarians, which Morse as pastor thought were anti-Federalists, as they had a different belief related to religious salvation.

In 1956, Sam Wells wrote that " Unitarians and Universalists are considering merger which would have total U. S. membership of 160, 000 ( 500, 000 in world )".

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's Twofold Catechism ( 1654 ).

Unitarians generally value a secular society in which government is kept separate from religious affairs.

Later, in 1961, the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America merged to form the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ), which is the largest organization of Unitarians in the US.

" He then joined a Unitarian chapel, which led him into contact with leading American Unitarians, including Moncure Conway and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Alger's classmate Joseph Choate described Harvard at this time as " provincial and local because its scope and outlook hardly extended beyond the boundaries of New England ; besides which it was very denominational, being held exclusively in the hands of Unitarians ".

Muslims, Jews, Unitarians and other nontrinitarians claim that the orthodox trinitarian Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit constitutes Tritheism, since these distinct " persons " are unified only by an impersonal substance ousia which does not transcend, or exist apart from, the persons.

Čapek's term is more accurately translated as " Flower Celebration ," a term which continues to be preferred by Czech Unitarians today.

Most of the Unitarian writings which came via Amsterdam to England were of authors of the Polish Brethren, not Hungarians, as in the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant ( or " Library of the Polish Brethren called Unitarians ") of which Locke, Voltaire and Newton owned copies.

It was the visit of Sándor Bölöni Farkas to Britain and America 1830-1832, which made English speaking Unitarians aware of the continued existence of Hungarian Unitarians-and following that, of the legacy of Ferenc Dávid.

The Nightingale Centre, which belongs to the Unitarians, is in the middle of the village and accommodates groups for school and community visits to the area, conferences and provides country holidays for children from inner cities.

The new sect of Socinians or Unitarians, which denied the Trinity and which, therefore, stood near to Judaism, had among its leaders Simon Budny, the translator of the Bible into Polish, and the priest Martin Czechowic.

Five presidents of the United States were Unitarians: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Jefferson, and William Howard Taft.

He claimed that monotheists had been subject to great persecution, by both Catholics and Protestants ; and that five among the US presidents had been Unitarians.

The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid " the People of Monotheism " or al-Muwaḥḥidūn " the Unitarians ".

Modalists differentiate themselves from Unitarians by affirming Christ's Deity.

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.

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.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Over time, however, some Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists moved away from the traditional Christian roots of Unitarianism.

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 ).

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.

Other Unitarian Christian groups are affiliated with the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ), founded in 1995.

Consequently, they may not recognize religious communities that baptize without this formula – e. g. Unitarians, Branhamists, Frankists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals, all of whom deny the Trinity – as Christian religions.

In the Reformation the Radical Reformation of Anabaptists and Early Unitarians, and later Dissenters combined Christian mortalism with eschatological views emphasizing the future aspect of the kingdom of God and the Second Coming.

Those who were associated with either Unitarianism or Universalism before the merger of the two, or who were instrumental in early works that lead to either would be better included in: Category: Unitarians or: Category: Christian Universalists

It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.

It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.

It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians.