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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Unitarian"”.
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John Adams and Unitarian Theology
… of Adams's belief system should only be "Unitarianism." It goes through the basic history of Unitarianism and the religious context of the Founding Fathers, and it analyzes relevant historiography on Adams's theological system, arguing against terms such as "Christian Deist" and "Theistic …
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“Que(e)rying Religious Activism: Culture, Identity, and the Politics of Family in Unitarian Universalist Churches”
… elements shaping congregants’ practices in two Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches considered “Welcoming Congregations”. Analysis of data generated from participant observations, in-depth interviews, and church and denominational texts highlight how structures of church governance, materiality, …
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Universal Burdens : Stories of (Un)Freedom from the Unitarian Universalist Association, The MOVE Organization, and Taqwacore
… contemporary empirical contexts in the U.S.: the Unitarian Universalist Association, the MOVE Organization, and taqwacore. Through a blend of text analysis, ethnography, storytelling, and personal experience, the purpose of this thesis is to imagine what more inclusive conversations might look …
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The Adorable Trinity: Old Columbia Seminary’s Stand for Trinitarianism in the Nineteenth-Century American South
… of the Old Columbia divines to counteract Unitarianism and stand for historic Trinitarianism in the nineteenth-century American South. This dissertation asserts that understanding the debate between the Old Columbia Trinitarians<br/>over against the Unitarians is crucial for any adequate …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… significantly influenced in her writing by the Unitarian social milieu to which she belonged during her lifetime, and by a wide range of other dominant influences, such as Romanticism and the rise of Darwinism. It demonstrates that conflicting doctrinal strains within Unitarianism, and emphases …
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The children's chapel, Unitarian Church of Montreal : two case studies of the role of the mural in the transformation of the room into a sacred space
… painted a mural in the Children's Chapel at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. What was once a plain room with little atmosphere has become, somehow, a magical space. It's clear that the mural is appreciated and acknowledged as having played a major role in this transformation. But how has it …
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A selected, annotated edition of the letters of George Ripley, 1828-1841
… literature, the various controversies with the Unitarian establishment, the formation of the Transcendental Club, and participation in the many reform movements of the period. Specifically, these letters detail Ripley's career as minister of Boston's Purchase Street Church, his missionary work …
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
… religious hierarchies in favor of a more Unitarian system.
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
… definition of knowledge—Reading A and Reading B, Unitarian and Developmentalist interpretations respectively. Reading A claims Plato has accepted moderate versions of Heraclitean Flux (HF) and Protagoras’ Measure Doctrine (MD). Reading B finds Plato rejecting both theories. This thesis provides a …
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Threshold: intermediary place
… The project chosen for thesis study is a Unitarian Universalist Church for the New River Valley Fellowship in Blacksburg, Virginia. The ideology of the Unitarian Universalist religion as well as the specific views of the Blacksburg congregation are important to the selection of the site, …
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Narrative light : the design of a monastic retreat
… is expressed in Louis Kahn's design for the Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York. Kahn employs the light to evoke a sense of roundness within the square central room. By this simple move, Kahn has softened the comers, thus retaining the essence of his initial concept which depicts the …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… who refashioned civil religion variously along Unitarian and congregational lines. In contrast to the usual scholarly preoccupation with the argument of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christianity could never become a civil religion, this study demonstrates how Hanoverian intellectuals constructed a …
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947
… the postwar period, institutions like the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles intervened to provide meeting spaces for embattled organizations. While the Popular Front coalition in Los Angeles unravelled by the mid-1950s under the burden of state and federal surveillance, it left behind a built …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… Emerson effectively transferred divinity from Unitarian doctrine to the individual, thereby asserting each individual as the center of his own moral universe. Emerson's prose utilizes visual metaphors to express ideas which escape conventional language usage. The poet, according to Emerson, …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… an argument which strongly tells in favour of a unitarian reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
… within the liberal religious Unitarian Universalist denomination as Thoreau is considered part of its religious heritage. A Week prods the tradition to be more ecologically attuned in religious matters, to be less anthropocentrically oriented, and to be united with the …