A History of the Unitarians and the Universalists in the United States
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Overview
Though its theological ancestry can be traced to the Ebionite sect of the early church, Unitarianism didn’t develop as a movement in the United States until the eighteenth century. Promoted by influential preachers such as Jonathan Mayhew, Unitarianism gained increased acceptance among the Harvard intelligentsia with its insistence—in contrast to Trinitarianism—that God is one person. Universalism, the close cousin of Unitarianism, became a theological movement when eighteenth-century minister John Murray preached the ultimate salvation of all mankind. In this volume, Joseph Henry Allen and Richard Eddy follow the development of these twin theological ideas that would coalesce in the Unitarian Universalist denomination of the twentieth century.