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Title

An American reformation : a documentary history of Unitarian Christianity / [edited by] Sydney E. Ahlstrom, with Jonathan Sinclair Carey.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : International Scholars Publications, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Ahlstrom, Sydney E.
• Carey, Jonathan S., 1951-

Description

xvi, 493 pages; 21 cm

Subject

Unitarianism > United States > History > Sources

Note

• Originally published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1985.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-478) and index.

Contents

• I. Origins and Founding. Natural Religion as Distinguished from Revealed (1759) / Ebenezer Gay. Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (1743) / Charles Chauncy. A Statement of Reasons for Not Believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians (1819) / Andrews Norton. A Letter to the Rev. Samuel C. Thacher (1815) / William Ellery Channing. Unitarian Christianity (1819) / William Ellery Channing. Likeness to God (1828) / William Ellery Channing. Antiquity and Revival of Unitarian Christianity (1831) / William Ware. The King's Chapel Liturgy (1785) / King's Chappel. Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the American Unitarian Association (1826) / American Unitarian Association -- II. Doctrines and the Theology. Catechism for Children and Youth [The Worcester Catechism] (1821) / Ministers of the Worcester Association. The Nature of Man (1820) / Henry Ware. Reason and Revelation (1838) / Abiel Abbot Livermore. The Incarnation (1854) / Oliver Stearns.
• Christ the Divine Word (1872) / Edmund Hamilton Sears. The Holy Spirit (1844) / Andrew Preston Peabody. Baptism (ca. 1872) / Leonard Jarvis Livermore. On the Uses of the Communion (1841) / Orville Dewey. Regeneration (1853) / William Greenleaf Eliot. The Apostle Paul (1854) and the Epistle of Paul to the Romans (1854) / Abiel Abbot Livermore. The Christian Church (1866) / James Freeman Clarke. The Day of Judgment (1861) / James Walker. Unitarian Hymns / John Quincy Adams, Henry Ware, Jr. and Edmund Hamilton Sears [et al.] -- III. Ethics and Moral Theology. Of the Nature and Principle of Evangelical Obedience (1755) / Jonathan Mayhew. The Comparative Moral Tendency of the Leading Doctrines of Calvinism and the Sentiments of Unitarians (1823) / Jared Sparks. Two Selections on the Christian's Social Responsibility (1838) / Joseph Tuckerman. The Christian Theory of Life (1849) / William Rounseville Alger -- IV. Uncertainties and Conflict.
• Philosophical Difficulties in the "Unitarian Controversy" (1823). Sober Thoughts on the State of the Times (1835) / Henry Ware, Jr. The Suspense of Faith, A Discourse on the State of the Church (1859) / Henry Whitney Bellows -- V. The Challenge of Emerson and Transcendentalism. Natural Religion (1851) / Frederic Henry Hedge. Antisupernaturalism in the Pulpit (1864) / Frederic Henry Hedge. The Personality of Deity (1838) / Henry Ware, Jr. Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, and the Bible (1857) / George Edward Ellis. A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (1839) / Andrews Norton.

ISBN

• 1573092088 (alk. paper)
• 1573092096 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97037327

OCLC

• 37480748
• ocm37480748

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Columbia University Libraries