Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The affirmation of the unipersonality of the Deity; the denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, or (rarely) of polytheism; the doctrines of the Unitarians.
- noun [lowercase] Any unitary system.
- noun [lowercase] In philosophy, the doctrine that mind and matter are one, or that there is but one general kind of substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrines of Unitarians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The belief in a single
God , not divided into any aspects, particularly when presented as a contrast toChristian trinitarianism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Christian doctrine that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity
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Examples
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Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: How "unitarianism" is a doctrinal leftover that Unitarian Universalists cling to somewhat irrationally.
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Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: In which I suggest that anti-Trinitarianism "unitarianism" is a kind of doctrinal leftover in Unitarian Universalism that we cling to somewhat irrationally; with 36 comments.
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Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news: In which I suggest that anti-Trinitarianism "unitarianism" is a kind of doctrinal leftover in Unitarian Universalism that we cling to somewhat irrationally; with 36 comments.
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So I think it is historically misleading to say that Channing and his peers were rallying to "unitarianism" when I think one can more successfully make the case that they were rallying to a liberal and broad-minded Christianity.
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So I think it is historically misleading to say that Channing and his peers were rallying to "unitarianism" when I think one can more successfully make the case that they were rallying to a liberal and broad-minded Christianity.
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Very few Unitarians or Universalists treated "unitarianism" or "universalism" as their religion.
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Very few Unitarians or Universalists treated "unitarianism" or "universalism" as their religion.
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The Progressives' unitarianism in opposing economic injustice has broadened in our day into a trinitarianism that focuses on concerns of race, class and gender, producing a host of studies treating the Founders' "sexism," "homophobia" and "racism."
The Visionary Generation James W. Ceaser 2011
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On the unitarianism of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Biblical Unitarians.
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One thing that makes this when “unitarianism” becomes “Unitarianism” hard to determine exactly is that U/unitarians are loath to recognize formalities as a matter of theological doctrine!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Voting, Religion, and Public Officials: 2009
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