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Topic: Universalist Church in America

	Beacon Unitarian Church: Unitarian Universalist History
		In 1638 the first Unitarian church to use that name was established in Transylvania, which had become fertile ground for religious doubt eighty years earlier under its Unitarian king Sigismund.
		In 1779 Murray occupied the pulpit of the Independent Christian Church of Gloucester, Massachusetts, which was the first organized Universalist church in America.
		Twenty-six years later the movement's greatest exponent, Hosea Ballou, articulated Universalist doctrine in his book, "A Treatise on Atonement," which sought to prove the doctrine of the trinity was unscriptural, and argued against miracles and the view of men and women as depraved creatures who would burn in hell.
	www.beaconunitarian.org /uuhistory.html (1231 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Unitarian Universalists Association
		It was at the Church in Transylvania that the term Unitarian originated from either its non-Trinitarian beliefs or the unity of the four-protestant churches there.
		The story of his trip to America and landing on Good-Luck Point is known today as the "Great Pilgrimage" because it was this journey that brought Universalism to America.
		Potter's family and church quickly adopted Murray, believing his arrival was "divinely appointed." Murray agreed with them, believing that God had appointed him to preach the Universalist faith in America.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/uua.html (3134 words)

	Andover-Harvard Library - Unitarian Universalist - Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Unitarian Universalist Women's Heritage Society was founded in 1988 (as the Women's History Publication Project).
		Records for Universalist colleges and seminaries appear at the end of the text.
		Since this concordance was prepared prior to the publication of Emerson's complete sermons, the researcher who hopes to use this index must refer to the key on pp.704-709 to locate the sermon number in which the reference appears.
	www.hds.harvard.edu /library/research/guides/uu/uu_all.html (2973 words)

	Unitarian Universalists - Christian or Cult?
		In America, the religious liberalism that came to be known as Unitarianism appeared within the congregational churches in Massachusetts as a reaction against the revivalism of the Great Awakening (1740-43).
		The Universalists also denied the miraculous element in Scripture, and rejected such important Bible doctrines as the total depravity of man and the Trinity.
		In their attempt to be "free thinking" and "non-creedal," the UUs have become so liberal that they deny almost every doctrine of the Christian faith, replacing the worship of God with a worship of self, teaching that human reason and experience take precedence over the Word of God.
	www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Cults/unitari.htm (688 words)

	Religion_and_Spirituality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There are hundreds of "Gnostic" churches, groups, teachings, writers and schools, each claiming to have the true Gnosis, the true knowledge of the divine.
		In the United States the Universalist movement was organized in 1793.
		It was formed in 1961 by the merger of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association.
	www.cool-sites-project.com /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality (5026 words)

	Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This view often draws particular inspiration from the First Letter (of Paul) to the Corinthians in the New Testament and has woven in and out of Christianity since the earliest times.
		Many official church councils, by contrast, condemned universalism.
		In nineteenth-century America, the Universalist Church was founded as a separate denomination; it has since merged with the Unitarians into the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), headquartered in Boston.
	www.hartfordinstitute.org /ency/Universalism.htm (124 words)

	Protestantism: Branches and Sects
		The evangelical churches in Germany and Scandinavia were followers of Martin
		Most Protestant and many Eastern Orthodox churches are allied in federated councils on the local, national, and international levels (see
		National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0860561.html (356 words)

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