Unitarianism

Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Historic Unitarians believed in the moral authority, but not the deity, of Jesus. Unitarians are often identified through the ages as free thinkers and dissenters, evolving their beliefs in the direction of freedom, tolerance, rationalism, and humanism.

References

• Joseph Henry Allen, Our Liberal Movement in Theology (Boston, 1882)
• Joseph Henry Allen, Sequel to our Liberal Movement (Boston, 1897)
• John White Chadwick, Old and New Unitarian Belief (Boston, 1894)
• William Ellery Channing (1903)
• Unitarianism: its Origin and history, a course of Sixteen Lectures (Boston, 1895)
• George Willis Cooke, Unitarianism in America: a History of its Origin and Development (Boston, 1902)
• Unitarian Year Book (Boston).