Unitarianism

Now, though it very little concerns us to know much of the origin of this society, which became then and since so notorious throughout the world, still as that origin throws some light on its subsequent history, it will not be lost time to glance at what is known, or supposed to be known, about it.

Monsignor Segur, Bishop of Grenoble, who devoted much time to a study of Freemasonry, is persuaded that it was first elaborated by Faustus Socinus, the nephew of the two celebrated Lelius Socinus, the heresiarch and founder of the sect of Unitarians, or, as they are generally called after him, Socinians.

Both were of the ancient family of the Sosini of Siena.

Faustus, like many of his relatives, imbibed the errors of his uncle, and in order to escape the vigilance of the Inquisition, to which both Italy and Spain owed much of the tranquility they enjoyed in these troublesome times, he fled to France.

And as I alluded to earlier, nobody batted an eye when David said it.

So there's this assumption that, I think in a lot of sectors that like Old Testament religion was so Unitarian that like Trinitarian language, yeah, I guess we could shoehorn it into the Old Testament and like types and shadows and like, yeah, there's a dark room fully furnished.

But the reality is like... loved ones, the reality is that the Trinity is on full display in most of the Old Testament.

I know there are a lot of really strong voices in the Reformed world who, and I think for good reasons, right? This is not me saying they're so wrong that they're dumb.

Phillips Brooks, the second of his sons, was born in Boston December 13, 1835.

The boy was baptized by the Unitarian minister of the First Church in Chauncey Place, which the family attended.

It is curious that they should soon have done precisely what Phillips Brooks, in his own ministry, led many Unitarians to do, transfer their allegiance to the Church of Episcopacy.

In 1839, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks became members of St. Paul's Church, of which the Rev.

Dr. Alexander H. Vinton was soon to become the rector.

i wish that clock wouldn't tick so loud she thought as she reached her door it makes the house sound like a tomb chapter ten of pocket island recording by roger milleen pocket island chapter x history from the time manson as a barefooted boy caught trout in ragged brook until the winter of sixty two when a sturdy young man of eighteen he had fallen deeply in love with liddy camp a few changes had taken place in southton three different principals had been in charge of the academy one of these a mr snow being very capable and universally popular later when mr weber succeeded to that position the question of popularity may have been considered an open one we must do him the justice to say he was efficient however and if he had an exaggerated idea of his own importance it was inherited and a failing that neither time nor experience could eradicate the two worthy dominies continued to try to convert sinners by exhaustive arguments on predestination and infant damnation but strange to say made little progress A FEW OF THE GOOD TOWNSPEOPLE WHO WERE NOT MEMBERS OF EITHER CHURCH, AS WELL AS SOME THAT WERE, HAD BEEN FOR MANY YEARS READING AND THINKING FOR THEMSELVES, AND HAD COME TO REALIZE THAT THE DRY BONES OF CALVINISTIC ARGUMENT HAD LOST THEIR FORCE, AND THAT THE SUPREME BEING WAS NOT THE MERCILESS GOD THE CHURCHES HAD FOR YEARS DEPICTED HIM, BUT RATHER A FATHER WHOSE LOVE AND MERCY WAS INFINITE.

The then ultra-liberal Unitarian idea had begun to spread, and a few who had outgrown the Orthodox religion organized a Unitarian society and built a modest church to worship in.

Among these pioneers in thought were Loren Camp and Jesse Olney, the latter the author of some of the best school books then used, a deep thinker and a leader in town affairs.

there were other thinking men of course who were prominent in this new movement but as this simple story is not an historical narrative their names need not be mentioned This new church and its followers, of course, incurred the condemnation of the other two, especially the one led by Parson Jotham, who exhausted all argument and invective to convince his hearers that Unitarianism and sin were synonymous terms, and that all the new church followers were surely slated for the fiery furnace.

so vigorous were his utterances in this connection and so explicit his description of the fire that is never quenched and the torture that never ends that it was said some of his hearers could smell brimstone and discern a blue halo about his venerable white head one of his favorite arguments was to describe the intense joy those who were saved through his scheme of salvation would feel when they came to look over the heavenly walls and see the writhing agony of all sinners in the burning lake below when his eloquence reached this climax he would cease pounding his open bible and glare over the top of his tall pulpit at the assembled congregation in the hope perhaps of discovering among them some unitarian sinner who could thus be made to realize his doom in justice to parson jotham it must be said that his intentions were of the best no doubt but his estimate of the motive forces of human action was too narrow He believed the only way to win people from vice to virtue and good conduct was to scare them into it.

In spite of all the denunciations of the other two churches, the new one, though feeble at first, slowly increased its following.

It is a vastly fine offer, exclaimed the astonished Poole.

On the other hand, continued his friend, the Unitarian chapel people at Shrewsbury will pay me a hundred and twenty pounds a year to become their preacher, and that means that I give up literary work.

I cannot combine both.

Hitherto, as you know, I have refused to accept any remuneration for my sermons.

But this idea that if it's the quality of your character that matters rather than your sexuality, then yeah, Quakers are absolutely inclusive of everyone.

And there is this tradition, isn't there, in Christianity, and particularly sort of radical Christianity, through the Quakers, through Unitarians and other Methodists to an extent, of radicalism about gender and sexuality.

I mean, was it Julian of Norwich writing in the 13th century was all about, you know, God is neither male or female.

If God exists, then they must have characteristics of male and females.

Yeah.

JT, what's up? Again, all you have to do is look at John 5-9 because Muslims have the same Unitarian ideas as the Jews, right? What does Jesus say about Jewish Unitarianism in John 5-9? Does it get him anywhere? Nope.

He says it over and over and over.

You do not have the love of God in you.

The Father is that you don't have him.

If you don't have the Son, you don't have the Father.

Remember Trent Horn's whole line of argument against me? Yeah, but the Old Testament teaches Unitarianism.

No, it doesn't.