AMERICA

1740 Great Awakening.

1785 King's Chapel Liturgy.

1805 Sherman's One God in One Person Only. Henry Ware elected Hollis Professor at Harvard.

1815 "American Unitarianism" published.

1818-20

The Dedham Case.

1819 Channing's Baltimore Sermon.

1825 American Unitarian Association formed, May 25.
1838 Emerson's Divinity School Address.

1841 Parker's South Boston Sermon.

1852 Western Unitarian Conference formed.

1865 National Conference of Unitarian Churches.

1867 Free Religious Association.

1875 Year Book Controversy.

1896 Young People's Religious Union.

1900 International Congress of Free Christians.
1908 National Federation of Religious Liberals.

1919 Laymen's League.

1925 General Conference merged with the American Unitarian

Association.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS

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IMPORTANT DATES IN UNITARIAN HISTORY

DIVISION I. CHRISTIANITY BEFORE

UNITARIANISM

Chapter I. Religion as a Heritage

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Chapter II. The Religion of the New Testament

Chapter III. The Development of Christian Doctrine

down to the Council of Nicæa, 325 A.D.

Chapter IV. The Council of Nicea and the Develop-

ment of the Doctrine of the Trinity,

to 381 A.D.

Chapter V. The Completion of the Orthodox Theol-

ogy, to 451 A.D.

DIVISION II. SCATTERED PIONEERS OF

UNITARIANISM IN EUROPE

Chapter VI. The Protestant Reformation and the Be-

ginnings of Modern Unitarianism, 1517-

1530

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Chapter VII. Antitrinitarianism among the Early Ana-

baptists, 1517-1530

Chapter VIII. Michael Servetus: Early Life, 1511-

Chapter IX.

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Antitrinitarianism in Northern Italy,

1517-1553

Chapter X. Antitrinitarianism in the Grisons, 1542-

XI. Servetus in France, 1532-1553

Chapter XII. The Trial and Execution of Servetus at

Geneva, 1553

Chapter XVI. The Organization and Growth of the

Antitrinitarian Churches in Poland,

1565-1579

Chapter XVII.

Faustus Socinus and the Full Develop-

ment of Socinianism in Poland, 1579-

1638 . .

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148

Chapter XVIII. The Decline and Fall of Socinianism,

and Its Banishment from Poland,

1638-1660

Chapter XIX. The Socinians in Exile, 1660-1803

Chapter XX.

DIVISION IV.

Chapter XXI.

Socinianism in Holland, 1598-1750

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UNITARIANISM IN TRANSYLVANIA.

Down to the Beginning of Unitarianism

in Transylvania in 1564

209

Chapter XXII. Francis David and the Rise of Unita-

rianism in Transylvania, 1564-1569. 220

Chapter XXIII. Unitarianism in Transylvania until the

Death of Francis David, 1569-1579 229

Chapter XXIV. Unitarianism in Transylvania after

David's Death, 1579-1690: a Century

of Calvinist Oppression

246

Chapter XXV.

XXV.

Unitarianism in Transylvania under

Austrian Rule, 1690-1867: a Century

and a Quarter of Catholic Oppression 259

Chapter XXVI. The Unitarian Churches of Hungary in

the Twentieth Century.

DIVISION V. UNITARIANISM IN ENGLAND

Chapter XXVII. The Pioneers of Unitarianism in Eng-

land, to 1644.

285

Chapter XXVIII. John

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John Bidle and His Successors,

1644-1697

Chapter XXIX. Unitarianism Spreads in the Church

of England: the Trinitarian Con-

troversy, 1690-1750

Chapter XXX. Unitarianism Spreads among the Dis-

senting Churches: the Arian Move-

ment, 1703-1750

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328

Chapter XXXI. The Unitarian Revolt from the

Church of England: Theophilus

Lindsey Organized the First Uni-

tarian Church, 1750-1808 . . 343

Chapter XXXII. The Liberal Dissenting Churches be-

come openly Unitarian under the

Leadership of Joseph Priestley,

1750-1804

357

369

389

XXXV. The Unitarian Controversy in Amer-

Chapter XXXVI. American Unitarianism Trying to

Find Itself: Internal Controversy

and Development, 1835-1865. 428

Chapter XXXVII. American Unitarianism Organized

and Expanding, 1865-1925

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APPENDIX: The Three Great Creeds of Early Christianity 471