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Unitarian Universalist
History &
Voices
UU
Resources
ALLEN,
Ethan THE ONLY ORACLE OF MAN
(1784)
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(67
pages, 0.45 MB PDF file)
ATHEIST & CHRISTIANS DEBATE/Star Tribune
August Berkshire, communications director for MINNESOTA ATHEISTS, debates
Northwestern College students & professor 2/24/06.
BALLOU/TREATISE ON ATONEMENT
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DOWNLOAD Chapter III excerpt from Hosea Ballou's A TREATISE ON ATONEMENT (1832 revision by author, originally published 1805) with an Introduction [part]
by
Ernest Cassara 1986 (13 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
Click
here
for live link to the biographical
sketch of Hosea Ballou on the online UUA Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.
HERMAN BISBEE - VIDEO:
Heritage of Heresy:
Bisbee & Tuttle on the Universalist Frontier
(produced by UU Prairie Star District/Heritage
& Archives Committee)
Click here
to watch this video on YouTube.
Early Universalists in the
Minnesota
Territory were leaders
in intellectual, business, social, and spiritual life. Indeed, they brought
a well-rounded and reasoned approach to building their new communities. By
1860, there were two Universalist Societies established within a one mile
radius of each other, the First Universalist Society of St. Anthony, and the
First Universalist Society of Minneapolis. In the decade that followed, the
differences between the ministers of these two societies grew wider than the
Mississippi River that physically
separated their churches.
In 1872, the traditional and pragmatic approach of Rev. James Tuttle of
Minneapolis clashed with the
progressive and provocative style of Rev. Herman Bisbee of St. Anthony.
The two men presented their views on Universalism in competing sermons.
While Tuttle preached creationism and the infallibility of the Bible, Bisbee
argued in favor of evolution and women's rights. Bisbee's proposals were so
radical and progressive that he was brought up on "unministerial conduct"
charges by the Universalist establishment. Heritage of Heresy tells the
story of the struggle to define Universalism in an expanding
America.
Click here
to watch this video on YouTube.
OLYMPIA
BROWN/WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE CHURCH
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Brown's 1869 sermon "Woman's Place in the Church" (8 pages, 0.05 MB
PDF file)
Click
here
for live link to the biographical
sketch of Olympia Brown on the online UUA Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's brief bio piece on Olympia Brown and additional biography
from
http://womenshistory.about.com
(live link)
CASSARA/UNIVERSALISM IN AMERICA
UNIVERSALISM IN
AMERICA: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith, Ernest Cassara, Skinner
House (1971).
In
UU History & Voices, we use the introductory chapter, which provides an
excellent short narrative history of the Universalists, from the mid-18th
century until merger with Unitarians in 1961.
CALVINISM THE
WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF 1646 «
DOWNLOAD full text (22 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
" WILLIAM
ELLERY
CHANNING"
Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, Unitarian Universalist
Historical Society (live link)
"William
Ellery Channing's public faith"
Jack Mendelsohn article in March/April 2005 UU WORLD (live link)
CHANNING/UNITARIAN CHRISTIANITY «
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William Ellery Channing's "Unitarian
Christianity" ("the Baltimore Sermon" 1819) (19 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
CHANNING/LIKENESS
TO GOD
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William Ellery Channing's "LIKENESS TO GOD" (1828) (14 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
CHANNING/LETTER
TO SAMUEL C. THACHER 1815
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William Ellery Channing's "A LETTER TO THE REV. SAMUEL C. THACHER ON THE
ASPERSIONS CONTAINED IN A LATE NUMBER OF THE PANOPLIST, ON THE MINISTERS OF
BOSTON AND THE VICINITY" (1815) (17 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
CHANNING
RECONSIDERED/Dee Smith intro
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Dee Smith intro (2 pages, 0.03 MB PDF file)
CHANNING/LETTER ON CREEDS/excerpt
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William Ellery Channing's "Letter on Creeds" excerpt (6 pages, 0.05 MB
PDF file)
CHANNING/ON
SLAVERY: DUTIES/excerpt
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William Ellery Channing's "On Slavery: Duties" excerpt (6 pages,
0.05 MB PDF file)
CHANNING/ELEVATION OF LABORING CLASSES/excerpt
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William Ellery Channing's "Elevation of the Laboring Classes" excerpt
(3 pages, 0.03 MB PDF file)
CHANNING/SUNDAY
SCHOOL/excerpt
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DOWNLOAD William Ellery Channing's "Sunday School" excerpt
(2 pages, 0.7 MB PDF file)
CONGREGATIONALISTS UCC HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION & EARLY
CONGREGATIONALISTS IN AMERICA
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Excerpted from A History of the United Church of Christ by
Margaret Rowland Post, published on United
Church of Christ website
www.ucc.org
(11/06).
JOHN
CUMMINS' sermon "A STREAM OF LIGHT" delivered at White Bear Unitarian
Universalist Church in November, 1989
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JOHN CUMMINS' "A Brief History of the First Universalist Church, Minneapolis,
Minnesota: BY THEIR DEEDS . . ." (1997)
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JOHN DIETRICH'S 1929 sermon
"MY RELIGION"
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DOWNLOAD this classic statement of humanism, from The Humanist
Pulpit published by the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis (11
pages, 0.09 MB PDF file)
EARLY AMERICAN UNITARIANS
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DOWNLOAD selections from E.M. Wilbur's OUR UNITARIAN HERITAGE, Chapters 34
& 35 (12
pages, 0.1 MB PDF
file).
Also
published online by Starr King School for the Ministry:
click
here for
complete text of OUR UNITARIAN HERITAGE from the Starr King website
(292 pages, 1.7 MB PDF file).
FREDERICK MAY ELIOT, CHAIR
1936 AUA
SURVEY OF UNITARIAN BELIEFS
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DOWNLOAD "REPORT OF THE COMMISSION OF APPRAISAL TO THE AMERICAN
UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION" (1936), Chapter 1 excerpt (12 pages, 0.35 MB PDF
file)
"FREDERICK
MAY ELIOT"
Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, Unitarian Universalist
Historical Society (live link )
EMERSON/DIVINITY
SCHOOL ADDRESS
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DOWNLOAD Ralph Waldo Emerson's "DIVINITY SCHOOL
ADDRESS" 1838 (11 pages, 0.08 MB PDF file)
EMERSON/THE OVER-SOUL
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DOWNLOAD Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The
Over-Soul" 1841 (10 pages, 0.08 MB PDF file)
GANNETT/THINGS MOST COMMONLY BELIEVED
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DOWNLOAD William Channing Gannett, "Things Most Commonly Believed Among Us"
(Western Unitarian Conference 1887) (2 pages, 0.01 MB PDF file)
KENDYL GIBBONS' "BACK
TO BASICS" sermon,
delivered
at White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in November, 2004
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"HUMANIST MANIFESTO I" (1933)
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Fredric John Muirs How We Got from
There to Here: From Unitarian Christianity to Unitarian Religious Humanism
(UUMA Selected Essays 1999).
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DOWNLOAD (23 pages, 0.2 MB PDF file).
Fredric John
Muir, D.Min., is parish minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Annapolis, Maryland.
NAT'L CONF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1894
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DOWNLOAD National Conference of Unitarian Churches Amendment to Constitution,
adopted 1894, and Wilbur
Important Dates in Unitarian History to 1925 (1 page, 0.04 MB PDF file)
PARKER/TRANSIENT & PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY «
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Theodore Parker's "The Transient and
Permanent in Christianity" 1841 (17 pages, 0.1 MB PDF file)
Click
here
for live link to the biographical sketch of
Theodore Parker
on the online UUA Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.
PEABODY/JESUS CHRIST & THE SOCIAL QUESTION «
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excerpts from Francis Greenwood Peabody's Jesus Christ and the Social
Question 1900 (30 pages, 0.23 MB PDF file). For "extra credit," click
here to download NY Times review of William Jennings Bryan,
progressive/populist political leader and proponent of the Social Gospel.
PRIESTLY/UNITARIANISM DEFENDED
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Joseph Priestley's "Discourse -
Unitarianism Defended," delivered in the Church of the Universalists at
Philadelphia, 1796 (27 scanned pages 1.3 MB PDF file). Includes biographical
sketch (4 pp.), Preface (6 pp.), and Discourse (17 pp.)
RASOR/WAR & PEACE
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Paul Rasors
article Prophetic Nonviolence: Toward a Unitarian Universalist theology of war
and peace, UU World, Spring 2008 (11 pages ˗ 0.1 MB PDF file).
SAFFORD, MARY ,
a founder and prime mover in the "Iowa Sisterhood," a network of women who
established themselves as Unitarian ministers and service workers in the Midwest
the hotbed of Unitarian radicals in the decades after the Civil War and
the early 20th century. We have
two classic
statements by Mary Safford, thanks to the good work of Dee Smith:
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WOMAN
AS A MINISTER, an address (click
here)
(2 pages, 0.02 MB, PDF file), and
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OBEDIENCE TO THE HEAVENLY VISION, a sermon (click
here) (6 pages, 0.03 MB, PDF file).
Link to the Mary Safford biographical essay in the online Dictionary of
Unitarian Universalist Biography - click
here.
SERVETUS/ERRORS OF THE TRINITY «
DOWNLOAD Michael Servetus' "On the Errors of the Trinity" (1531) (15 pages, 0.9
MB PDF file)
STANTON/SOLITUDE OF SELF
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Solitude of Self" (1892) (8 pages, 0.06
MB PDF file)
The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(The
Nation 2/27/06).
STANTON/SENECA FALLS ADDRESS 1848
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Seneca Falls Address" (1848) (15 pages, 0.12
MB PDF file)
STANTON/DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS 1848
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DOWNLOAD "Declaration
of Sentiments Seneca
Falls Conference1848" (3 pages, 0.06
MB PDF file)
"ELIZABETH
CADY STANTON"
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DOWNLOAD National Park Service
short bio (2 pages, 0.06 MB PDF file)
TRANSCENDENTALISM Transcendentalism
and Its Times, David M. Robinson, collected in The Cambridge Companion to
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte, ed. (New York 1999).
UNIVERSALISTS IN MINNEAPOLIS:
"Heretics AT the First Universalist Society of St. Anthony,"
by Penny A. Petersen, Hennepin History, Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring 2000.
WILBUR - EARLY AMERICAN UNITARIANS
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DOWNLOAD selections from E.M. Wilbur's OUR UNITARIAN HERITAGE, Chapters 34
& 35 (12
pages, 0.1 MB PDF
file).
Also
published online by Starr King School for the Ministry:
click
here
for
complete text of OUR UNITARIAN HERITAGAE from the Starr King website
(292 pages, 1.7 MB PDF
file).
OTHER UU RESOURCES
CHURCH OF THE LARGER
FELLOWSHIP (CLF).
Check out
current and
many
resources and materials at www.clfuu.org. This is
the
website for CLF, which is an online congregation for isolated UUs. Their website is
loaded
with great materials, publications, and links to all things UU.
Definitely worth the trip!
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