American Unitarian Association

The American Unitarian Association ( German: American Unitarian Society) was a Unitarian Church in the United States, which in 1961 united with the North American Universalists for Unitarian Universalist Association.

The church represented a Christian Unitarianism, which rejected the idea of ​​a Trinity of God and instead stood for anti-Trinitarian ideas.

History

The North American Unitarianism developed in the 18th century in a predominantly Protestant oriented environment. Preachers like Jonathan Mayhew, who worked 1747-1766 as pastor in Boston, already began to represent early anti-Trinitarian positions. Formative influence exerted mainly coming from Europe of Socinianism.

The first Unitarian congregation in North America was founded in 1786 in Boston, by the local Anglican church still before the King's Chapel majority in rejecting the notion of the Trinity turning to Unitarianism. In 1802, the first founded by the Pilgrims in America Puritan community in Plymouth was Unitarian. 1825, finally, the American Unitarian Association was founded as the umbrella organization of the North American Unitarians. Mid-19th century won transzendentalistische ideas support within the American Unitarianism, which is due to, among other things, the 1836 published Wetrk Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Part of the Unitarians began at the end of the 19th century by the Christian foundation of Unitarianism to solve. Already in 1867 was founded by side of the rationalists among the Unitarians along with liberal Quakers and agnostics the Free Religious Association. In 1899 there were initial discussions about the possibility with the North American Universalists of the Universalist General Convention to close together. In 1961 merged the two churches to today's Unitarian Universalist Association, in which the Christian Unitarianism and Universalism, however, was marginalized during the 20th century from a rather pantheistic humanist conception.

In 2000 founded the American Unitarian Conference ( AUC), a new theistic oriented Unitarian Community, in 2012 followed by the Unitarian Christian Emerging Church ( UCEC ) the creation of a specifically Christian oriented Unitarian Church community.

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