Word: unitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million endowment to benefit the Divinity School and two other theological schools was pointed by the Unitarian Universalist Association last week...
Edwin A. Lane, minister of the First Parish in Cambridge (Unitarian Universalistic) this week explained why his church wrote a letter opposing a license for Ruggle's. "I am at this point opposed to anybody, no matter how reputable or disreputable they are, as I believe the proliferation of licenses in Harvard Square to be the issue." But his decision to send a letter smacks of using the government to impose a morality he cannot impose through his religious offices alone...
...mild ex-Unitarian clairvoyant dead 100 years, Emerson is still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche...
Each panelist presented his view as compromises between all of the factions in El Salvador, but John McAward, associate director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, attacked the spokesmen for the Reagan administration, saying. "If this is a civilian-military government. I'd hate to see what a rightist government would look like...
...leading spokesman for the Unitarian cause in the early nineteenth century, Channing preached what Emerson called "sublime sermons." His was a life of the mind, as he grappled with the central issues of his day. Andrew Delbanco believes that Channing's inner life may best be understood through his public utterances, and examines the way his subject spoke as well as what he said. In his biography of Channing, the author acknowledges an abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from...