Unitarian Universalist Association

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA, German: Unitarian Universalist Association ) is a liberal religious community in the United States, which was created in 1961 from the merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America. Seat of the UUA is on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The UUA is composed of 20 districts, 1,042 communes, and 157 920 members and 1,623 preachers .. Current President of the UUA is Peter Morales.

The Unitarian Universalist Association is a member of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists.

History

See also: Unitarian Universalist Church of America and

The North American Unitarian Universalist emerged in 1961 from the merger of the North American Unitarian Universalists with. Discussions about a union of the two churches there were already at the end of the 19th century. The two churches were so close, especially in its liberal positioning. Although no longer understand the North American Unitarian Universalist today as explicitly Christian, both the North American Unitarians and the Universalists in the 19th century were founded as a genuinely Christian churches. Both churches were built in the environment of the North American Protestantism. They were influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment as well as influences of Pietism, Puritanism and the Anabaptist movement. The first Universalist church in North America was founded in 1779 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The first Unitarian congregation followed in 1786 by the Anglican church before the King's Chapel majority in rejecting the notion of the Trinity turning to Unitarianism in Boston. 1802, the first founded by the Pilgrims in America Puritan community in Plymouth was Unitarian. In 1825, finally, the American Unitarian Association was founded as the umbrella organization of the North American Unitarians. 1866, the Universalist General Convention was established as an umbrella organization of North American Universalists. The latter named in 1942 in Universalist Church in America has to offer.

Traditionally, the Unitarians are theologically especially for rejecting the idea of ​​a trinity of God, they see God as one rather than three people. Universalism is the Allaussöhnung ( Apokatastasis ) and declined according to ideas of an eternal damnation of man from. Meanwhile, the Christian foundations of the American Unitarian Universalist, however, are largely marginalized and the Unitarian Universalist Association is also understood for members of other religious views openly. It can be understood in this sense as syncretistic. To take care of the Christians under the North American Unitarian Universalist, 1945, already founded the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship ( UUCF ). For the collection Unitarian Universalist - Buddhists founded at the beginning of the 1990s, the Universalist Buddhist Fellowship ( UUBF ). Both work within the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ). Outside the UUA communities such as the Christian Universalist Association ( CUA) and the Unitarian Christian Emerging Church ( UCEC ) have been set up in recent years that more strongly emphasize the Christian foundation of universalism or of Unitarianism. By 2002, the Unitarian - Universalist churches in Canada were cared for by the UUA, now this task was taken over entirely by the Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC).

In the 1990s, the UUA Welcoming Congregation Program has a ( German Einladene community program) initiated to express publicly that homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT ) are welcome in the communities of the UUA.

Principle

The UUA has no binding and central to its members a statement of faith. Its members are to go in this sense free to do their spiritual and religious way. Nevertheless, the UUA has given under the name of Principles and Purposes ( German principles and purposes ) a program principles, intended to reflect the central aspects of the Unitarian Universalist faith understanding and explicitly appeal to members of non- Christian ideas. Key issues include the inherent dignity of the human being, the promotion of peace, freedom and justice, mutual acceptance and support for spiritual growth and taking responsibility for a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.

President of the UUA

  • Dana McLean Greeley 1961
  • Robert West 1969
  • Paul Carnes 1977
  • Eugene Pickett 1979
  • William Schulz 1985
  • John Buehrens 1993
  • William Sinkford 2001
  • Peter Morales 2009
Liberalism Gloucester (Massachusetts) Burlington (Vermont) William F. Schulz
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