According to an old wisecrack, "Unitarians believe that there is, at the most, one God." Last week, in the Unitarian monthly Christian Register, 17 Unitarian members tried to say a little more clearly, and a little less cleverly, exactly what the nation's 75,000 Unitarians do believe in.
For such free-style individualists as the American Unitarian Association, the effort was doomed from the start. The writers found widespread Unitarian agreement on only three points: 1) belief in the dignity and promise of man; 2) insistence on "the principle of the free mind"; 3) "a common program of [liberal] social action." On matters theological...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
