the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians.
(lowercase) any system advocating unity or centralization, as in government.
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Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
By the mid-1830s, a few daring intellectuals around Boston had pushed beyond Unitarianism and gathered to discuss Hindu scriptures, Chinese philosophy, and German free thought in a circle they called the Transcendental Club.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But like his father, President John Adams, he migrated over to a more conservative tradition and toward Unitarianism.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2017
The century’s most famous Catholic convert, a journalist named Orestes Brownson, tried Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Universalism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism on his way to Catholicism.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2015
Unitarianism was a lenient Christian faith at the center of social reform in England.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
He was a convert to unitarianism, to which sect Paley had a strong leaning.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
The death-like submission of the churches, the stifling intolerance of nations, the stupid unitarianism of socialists,—by all these different roads we are returning to the gregarious life.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Rolland, Romain
Mrs. Eddy's recruits were not from theosophy, spiritualism, agnosticism, unitarianism, universalism or infidelity.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert
The conception of an almost solitary deity, recognized as watcher of wrong, guardian of right, and primitive creator, approaches more closely to unitarianism than does the idea of any physical power in the Rig Veda.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn
Deism, in England, 11; division of, 116, 126, 144; name explained, 118; peculiarities of English, 154; introduced into Germany, 214, 216, 217, 338, 415; compared with unitarianism, 328.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey
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