Word: unitarian
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...last week wrote Rev. Dr. Samuel Atkins Eliot, 72, son of Harvard's late great Charles William Eliot, longtime (1900-27) president of the American Unitarian Association, minister since 1927 of Arlington Street Church in Boston. In re-signing his place Dr. Eliot gave a chance not to the next generation but to a 26-year-old in the generation after that, whom he called "an alert, able and beloved young minister, endowed with exceptional gifts of mind and heart and with the best possible background and training." This exceptional young man: Rev. Dana McLean Greeley...
Next July Dana Greeley will take over the pulpit once held by Rev. Ezra Gannett, first president of American Unitarian Association, and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Born in Lexington, Mass., he is the son of William, Roger Greeley, architect and Unitarian layman. Enterprising but no brilliant student, at Harvard (1931) he played football a few minutes in a Yale game, was president of Delta Upsilon. At 23, before he received his Harvard divinity degree, he took a Unitarian parish in Lincoln, Mass. Last year he went to Concord, N. H., became minister-at-large to New Hampshire Unitarian churches. Dana...
Milton is traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there...
...bodies, bulwarks of morals, at the same time have withdrawn old objections to birth control. Notable groups which have expressly approved: Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Lambeth Conference of Bishops of the Church of England, General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches, Universalist General Convention, American Unitarian Association, Central Conference of American Rabbis, several regional conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Bliven spoke last night on journalism and the New Deal at a dinner meeting of the Unitarian Club in Boston. He deplored a lack of freedom in modern journalism and maintained that such freedom as still exists is steadily diminishing...