UNITARIANISM
, a See also:system of See also:Christian thought and religious observance, based, as opposed to orthodox Trinitarianism, on the unipersonality of the Godhead, i.e. that the Godhead exists in the See also:person of the See also:Father alone
.
Unitarians carry their See also:history up to the Apostolic See also:age, claim for their See also:doctrine a prevalence during the ante-Nicene See also:period, and by help of Arian communities and individual thinkers trace a continuity of their views to the See also:present See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
However this may be, it is certain that the Reformaticn of the 16th See also:century was in every See also:European See also:country attended by an outbreak more or less serious of See also:anti-Trinitarian See also:opinion
.
Suppressed as a See also:rule in individual cases, this type of doctrine ultimately became the badge of See also:separate religious communities, in See also:Poland (See also:extinct), in See also:Hungary (still flourishing), and at a much later date in See also:England
.
Along with the fundamental doctrine, certain characteristics have always marked its professors; namely, a large degree of See also:toleration, a minimizing of essentials, a repugnance to formulated creed, an See also:historical study of Scripture
.
See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin Cellarius (1499-1564) a friend of See also:Luther, is usually regarded as the first See also:literary See also:pioneer (1527) of the See also:movement; the anti-Trinitarian position of See also:Ludwig See also:Haetzer (q.v.) was not disclosed till after his See also:execution (1529) for anabaptism
.
Both by his writings (from 1531) and by his See also:fate (1553) See also:Servetus (q.v.) stimulated thought in this direction
.
The Dialogues (1563) of Bernardino See also:Ochino, while defending the Trinity, stated objections and difficulties with a force which captivated many
.
In his 27th See also:Dialogue Ochino points to Hungary as a possible See also:home of religious See also:liberty
.
It was in Poland and Hungary that religious communities, definitely anti-Trinitarian, were first formed and tolerated
.
Poland.—Scattered expressions of anti-Trinitarian opinion appear here See also:early
.
At the age of 8o, See also:Catherine, wife of Melchior See also:Vogel or Weygel, was burned at See also:Cracow (1539) for See also:apostasy; whether her views embraced more than See also:deism is not clear
.
The first See also:synod of the Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church was held in 1555; at the second (1556), See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory See also:Pauli and See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Gonesius avowed anti-Trinitarian and anabaptist views
.
The arrival of Bland-rata (q.v.) in 1558 furnished the party with a See also:leader
.
In 1565 the See also:diet of See also:Piotrkow excluded anti-See also:Trinitarians from the existing synod; henceforward they held their own synods as the See also:Minor Church
.
Known by various other names (of which Arian was the most See also:common), at no time in its history did this See also:body adopt for itself any designation See also:save Christian
.
Originally Arian (though excluding any See also:worship of See also:Christ) and anabaptist, the Minor Church was (by 1588) brought See also:round to his own views by Fausto Sozzini, who had settled in Poland in 1579 (see Socrnus)
.
In 1602 See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Sienynski established at Rak6w a See also:college and a See also:printing-See also:press, from which the Racovian See also:Catechism was issued in 16o5
.
In 16ro a See also:Catholic reaction began, led by See also:Jesuits
.
The See also:establishment at Rak6w was suppressed in 1638, two lads having pelted a crucifix outside the See also:town
.
Twenty years later the See also:Polish Diet gave anti-Trinitarians the See also:option of conformity or See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile
.
The Minor Church included many Polish magnates, but their See also:adoption of the views of Sozzini, which precluded Christians from magisterial See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, rendered them politically powerless
.
The execution of the See also:decree, hastened by a See also:year, took See also:place in 166o
.
Some conformed; a large number made their way to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland (where the See also:Remonstrants admitted them to membership on the basis of the Apostles' Creed); others to the See also:German frontier; a contingent settled in Tran-sylvania, not joining the Unitarian Church, but maintaining a distinct organization at See also:Kolozsvar till 1793
.
At See also:Amsterdam was published (1665-1669) the Bibliotheca fratrum polonorum, embracing the See also:works of Hans Krell, their leading theologian, of See also:Jonas Schlichting, their See also:chief commentator, of Sozzini and of Johann Ludwig Wolzogen; the See also:title-See also:page of this collection, bearing the words quos Unitarios vacant, introduced this See also:term to Western See also:Europe
.
Transylvania and Hungary.—No distinct trace of anti-Trinitarian opinion precedes the See also:appearance of See also:Blandrata at the Transylvanian See also:court in 1563
.
His See also:influence was exerted on See also:Francis See also:David (1510-1579), who was successively Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist and anti-Trinitarian
.
In 1564 David was elected by the Calvinists as " See also:bishop of the Hungarian churches in Transylvania," and appointed court preacher to See also:John See also:Sigismund, See also:prince of Transylvania
.
His discussion of the Trinity began (i565) with doubts of the See also:personality of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost
.
His antagonist in public disputations was the Calvinist leader, Peter Juhasz (Melius); his supporter was Blandrata
.
John Sigismund, adopting his court-preacher's views, issued (1568) an See also:edict of religious liberty at the Torda Diet, which allowed David (retaining his existing title) to See also:transfer his episcopate from the Calvinists to the anti-Trinitarians, Kolozsvar being evacuated by all but his followers
.
In 1571, John Sigismund was succeeded by See also:Stephen See also:Bathory, a Catholic, and trouble began
.
Under the influence of John See also:Sommer, See also:rector of the Kolozsvar gymnasium, David (about 1572) abandoned the worship of Christ
.
The attempted See also:accommodation by Sozzini only precipitated matters; tried as an innovator, David died in See also:prison at See also:Deva (1579)
.
The cultus of Christ became an established usage of the Church; it is recognized in the 1837 edition of the See also:official hymnal, but removed in the edition of 1865
.
On the other See also:hand, in 1621 a new See also:sect arose, the Sabbatarii, with strong Judaic tendencies; though excluded from toleration they maintained an existence till 1848
.
The term unitarius (said to have been introduced by Melius, in discussions of 1569-1571) makes its first documentary appearance in a decree of the Lecsfalva Diet (1600); it was not officially adopted by the Church till 1638
.
Of the See also:line of twenty-three bishops the most distinguished were See also:George Enyedi (1592-1597), whose Explicationes obtained European See also:vogue, and See also:Michael Lombard Szentabrahami (1737-1758), who rallied the forces of his Church, broken by persecution and deprivation of See also:property, and gave them their existing constitution
.
His Summa universae theologise secundum Unitarios (1787), Socinian with Arminian modifications, was accepted by See also:Joseph II. as the official manifesto of doctrine, and so remains, though no subscription to it has ever been required
.
The official title is the Hungarian Unitarian Church, with a membership of over 6o,000, most of them in Transylvania, especially among the Szekler See also:population, a few in Hungary; their bishop has a seat in the Hungarian See also:parliament
.
At Kolozsvar, the seat of the See also:consistory, is the See also:principal college; others are at Torda and at Szekely-Keresztilr
.
Till 1818 the continued existence of this body was unknown to See also:English Unitarians; relations have since become intimate; since 186o a See also:succession of students have finished their theological See also:education at See also:Manchester College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; others at the Unitarian Home Missionary College
.
England.—Between 1548
.
(John Assheton) and 1612 we have a thin line of anti-Trinitarians, either executed or saved by recantation
.
Those burned were George See also:van Parris , (1551), Flemish surgeon; See also:Patrick Pakingham (1555), fellmonger; See also:Matthew Hamont (1579), ploughwright; John See also:Lewes (1583); Peter See also:Cole (1587), See also:tanner; Francis Kett (1589), physician and author; See also:Bartholomew See also:Legate (1612), See also:cloth-dealer, last of the Smithfield victims; and the twice-burned fanatic See also:Edward Wightman (1612)
.
In all these cases the See also:virus seems to have come from Holland; the last two executions followed the rash See also:dedication to James I. of the Latin version of the Racovian Catechism (1609)
.
The vogue of Socinian views, which for a time affected men like See also:Falkland and See also:Chillingworth, led to the abortive See also:fourth See also:canon of 164o against Socinian books
.
The
See also:ordinance of 1648 made denial of the Trinity See also:capital, but it was a dead See also:letter, See also:Cromwell intervening in the cases of See also:Paul
Best (1590-1657) and John See also:Biddle (1616-1662)
.
In 165o John
See also:Knowles was an Arian See also:lay-preacher at See also:Chester
.
In 1652-1654
and 1658-1662 Biddle held a Socinian conventicle in See also:London; in addition to his own writings he reprinted (1651) and translated (1652) the Racovian Catechism, and the See also:Life of See also:Socinus (1653)
.
His See also:disciple See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Firmin (1632-1697), See also:mercer and philanthropist, and friend of See also:Tillotson, was weaned to Sabellian views by Stephen See also:Nye (1648-1719), a clergyman
.
Firmin proms moted a remarkable See also:series of controversial tracts (169o-1699)
.
The term " Unitarian " first emerges in 1682, and appears in the title of the Brief History (1687)
.
It was construed in a broad sense to See also:cover all who, with whatever See also:differences, held the unipersonality of the Divine Being
.
Firmin had later a project of Unitarian See also:societies " within the Church "; the first preacher to describe himself as Unitarian was Thomas See also:Emlyn (1663-1741) who gathered a London See also:congregation in 1705
.
This was contrary to the Toleration See also:Act of 1689, which excluded all who should preach or write against the Trinity
.
It is noteworthy that in England the Socinian controversy, initiated by Biddle, preceded the Arian controversy initiated by See also:Samuel See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity (1712)
.
Arian or semi-Arian views had much vogue during the 18th century, both in the Church and in dissent
.
The See also:free See also:atmosphere of dissenting See also:academies (colleges) favoured new ideas
.
The effect of the Salters' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall See also:conference (1719), called for by the alleged See also:heresy of James See also:Peirce (1673-1726) of See also:Exeter, was to leave dissenting congregations to determine their own orthodoxy; the See also:General
See also:Baptists had already (1700) condoned defections from the
common doctrine
.
In 1689 Presbyterians and See also:Independents
had coalesced, agreeing to drop both names and to support a common fund
.
The See also:union in the London fund was ruptured in 1693; in course of time differences in the See also:administration of the two funds led to the attaching of the Presbyterian name to theological liberals, though many of the older Unitarian chapels were See also:Independent See also:foundations, and at least See also:half of the Presbyterian chapels (of 1690-1710) are now in the hands of Congregationalists
.
Leaders in the advocacy of a purely humanitarian christology came largely from the Independents, e.g
.
Nathaniel See also:Lardner (1684-1768), See also:Caleb See also:Fleming (1698-1779), Joseph See also:Priestley (1733-1804), Thomas See also:Belsham (1750-1829)
.
The formation of a distinct Unitarian See also:denomination See also:dates from the See also:secession (1773) of See also:Theophilus See also:Lindsey (1723-1808) from the See also:Anglican Church, on the failure of the Feathers See also:petition to parliament (1772) for See also:relief from subscription
.
Lindsey's secession had been preceded in See also:Ireland by that of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Robertson, D
.
D
.
(170 1783), who has been called " the father of Unitarian See also:nonconformity." It was followed by other clerical secessions, mostly of men who See also:left the See also:ministry, and Lindsey's See also:hope of a Unitarian movement from the Anglican Church was disappointed
.
By degrees his type of See also:theology superseded Arianism in a considerable number of dissenting congregations
.
The Toleration Act was amended (1779) by substituting belief in Scripture for belief in the Anglican (doctrinal) articles; in 1813 the penal acts against deniers of the Trinity were repealed
.
In 1825 the See also:British and See also:Foreign Unitarian Association was formed as an amalgamation of three older societies, for literature (1791), See also:mission See also:work (18o6) and See also:civil rights (1818)
.
Attacks were made on properties held by Unitarians, but created See also:prior to 1813
.
The See also:Wolverhampton See also:Chapel See also:case began in 1817, the more important Hewley Fund case in 183o; both were decided against the Unitarians in 1842
.
See also:Appeal to parliament resulted in the Dissenters' Chapels Act (1844), which secures that, so far as See also:trusts do not specify doctrines, twenty-five years See also:tenure legitimates existing usage
.
The drier Priestley-Belsham type of Unitarianism, See also:bound up with a determinist See also:philosophy, was gradually modified by the influence of See also:Channing (see below), whose works were reprinted in numerous See also:editions and owed a wide circulation to the efforts of See also:Robert Spears (1825-1899)
.
Another See also:American influence, potent in reducing the rigid though limited supernaturalismof Belsham and his successors, was that of See also:Theodore See also:Parker (1810-186o)
.
At home the teaching cf James See also:Martineau (1805-1900), resisted at first, was at length powerfully See also:felt, seconded as it was by the influence of John James Tayler (1797-1869) and John See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton Thom (1808-1894)
.
The body has produced some remarkable scholars, e.g
.
John Kenrick (1788-1877), James See also:Yates (1789-1871), Samuel See also:Sharpe (1799-1881); but few very popular preachers, though George See also:Harris (1794—1859) is an exception
.
Its year-See also:book specifies 406 congregations in England and See also:Wales
.
For the education of its ministry it supports Manchester College at Oxford (which deduces its ancestry from the See also:academy of See also:Richard Franklandr begun 1670), the Unitarian Home Missionary College (founded in Manchester in 1854 by John Relly See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
Beard, D.D., and William See also:Gaskell), and the Presbyterian College, See also:Carmarthen
.
English Unitarian periodical literature begins with Priestley's Theological Repository (1769-1788), and includes the Monthly Repository (1806-1838), The Christian Reformer (1834-1863), the Prospective See also:Review (184 -1854), the See also:National Review (1855--1864), the Theological Review 1864-1879), and now the Hibbert See also:Journal, one of the enterprises of the Hibbert See also:Trust, founded by Robert Hibbert (1770-1849) and originally designated the Anti-Trinitarian Fund
.
This came into operation in 1853, awards scholarships and fellowships, supported (1878-1894) an See also:annual lectureship,, and has maintained (from 1894) a See also:chair of ecclesiastical history at Manchester College
.
The general activities of the body are conducted partly by its association (See also:Essex See also:Street, Strand), partly by its (triennial) National Conference, established 1882
.
It has two weekly papers, the Inquirer and the Christian Life
.
See also:Scotland.—Much has been made of the execution (1697) at See also:Edinburgh of the student Thomas Aikenhead, convicted of blaspheming the Trinity
.
The works of John See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, D.D
.
(1694-1761) on See also:original See also:sin and See also:atonement had much influence in the See also:east of Scotland, as we learn from Robert See also:Burns; and such men as William Dalrymple, D.D
.
(1723-1814) and William M`Gill, D.D
.
(1732-1807), along with other "'moderates," were under suspicion of similar heresies
.
Overt Unitarianism has never had much vogue in Scotland
.
The only congregation of old See also:foundation is at Edinburgh, founded in 1776 by a secession from one of the " fellowship societies " formed by James See also:Fraser, of Brea (1639-1699)
.
The mission enterprises of Richard See also:Wright (1764-1836) and George Harris (1794-1859) produced; results of no See also:great permanence
.
There are now seven congregations
.
The Scottish Unitarian Association was founded in 1813, mainly by Thomas Southwood See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, M.D., the sanitary reformer
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The McQuaker Trust was founded (1889) for propagandist purposes
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Ireland.—Controversy respecting the Trinity was excited in Ireland by the See also:prosecution at See also:Dublin (1703) of Thomas Emlyn (see above), resulting in See also:fine and imprisonment, for rejecting the deity of Christ
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In 1705 the See also:Belfast Society was founded for theological discussion by Presbyterian ministers in the See also:north, with the result of creating a body of opinion adverse to subscription to the See also:Westminster See also:standards
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Toleration of dissent, withheld in Ireland till 1719, was then granted without the requirement of any doctrinal subscription
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Next year a movement against subscription was begun in the General Synod of See also:Ulster, culminating (1725) in the placing of the See also:advocates of non-subscription, headed by John See also:Abernethy, D.D., of See also:Antrim; into a See also:presbytery by themselves
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This Antrim presbytery was excluded (1726) from See also:jurisdiction, though not from communion
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During the _ next See also:hundred years its members exercised . great influence on their brethren of the synod; but the See also:counter-influence of the mission of. the Scottish Seceders (from 1942) produced a reaction
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The Antrim Presbytery gradually became Arian; the same type of theology affected more or less the See also:Southern Association, known since 18o6 as the Synod of See also:Munster
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From 1783 ten of the fourteen presbyteries in the General Synod had made subscription optional; the synod's See also:code of 1824 left soundness in the faith " to be ascertained by subscription or by examination
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Against this See also:compromise See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Cooke, D.D
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(1788-1868), directed all his See also:powers, and was ultimately (1829) successful in defeating his Arian opponent, Henry See also:Montgomery, LL.D
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(1788-1865)
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Montgomeryled a secession
which formed (1830) the Remonstrant Synod, comprising three became the leader of the Unitarian movement
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At first presbyteries
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In 1910 the Antrim Presbytery, Remonstrant mystical rather than rationalisticin his theology, he took See also:part Synod and Synod of Munster were See also:united as the General Synod with the " Catholic Christians," as they called themselves, who of the non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
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They aimed at bringing See also:Christianity into See also:harmony with the See also:pro-have 38 congregations and some mission stations
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Till 1889 gressive spirit of the time
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His essays on The System of Excluthey maintained two theological chairs in Belfast, where John See also:sion and Denunciation in See also:Religion (1815), and Objections to See also: