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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Unitarianism."”.
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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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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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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
… that conflicting doctrinal strains within Unitarianism, and emphases in Unitarianism differing from that of other prevailing influences within society, jointly contributed to the particular nature of her literary output. Elizabeth Gaskell's work is characterised by a series of binary …
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The reception and teaching of Shakespeare in nineteenth and early twentieth century America
… the frameworks of orthodox Christianity and Unitarianism, respectively, and utilizing an aesthetic emphasis made possible by Romantic critical theory. The aesthetic approach to the texts competed for a time with the German-inspired philological approach, but a non-dogmatic aesthetic criticism …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitudes toward organized Christianity.
… next chapter treats Hawthorne's attitudes toward Unitarianism, the liberal denomination to which many were turning during Hawthorne's lifetime in reaction to the harshness of Puritanism. The third chapter deals with his attitudes toward Quakerism and Shakerism, minor sects to which Hawthorne …
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The cause of Christ and truth: Arguments for the deity of Christ in the anti-Socinian writings of John Gill, Dan Taylor, and Andrew Fuller
… were studied, as well as the beginnings of Unitarianism in Britain. Chapter 2 discusses the arguments for the deity of Christ in the writings of John Gill (1697-1771). It highlights the use of arguments for the eternal Sonship of Christ as used in many of his works, especially The Trinity …
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
… the emergence of an intellectually robust Unitarianism, and that such divines accentuated identifiably Reformed emphases in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Remonstrant tradition. In brief, the thesis contends that later Stuart and early Hanoverian conforming Arminianism …
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Anti-parliamentary passage: South Wales and the internationalism of Sam Mainwaring (1841-1907)
… subversive, neighbourhood, links with Welsh Unitarianism and the most radical elements in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. In Chapters Two and Three, I examine the nature of early nineteenth-century proto-Syndicalism in England and its 1850s influence on the first of the New Model …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
This biographical dissertation argues that the thought of James Peirce (1674-1726), the Presbyterian minister whose controversial theology was the catalyst for the division of Dissent in 1719, must be considered in relation to his hermeneutic of history. For Peirce, history was the telling of truth …
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
Interpreting Plato is a difficult, divisive affair. This is particularly apparent in the <i>Theaetetus</i> where there are two primary interpretations of the first definition of knowledge—Reading A and Reading B, Unitarian and Developmentalist interpretations respectively. Reading A claims Plato …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
This doctoral thesis represents the first full length historical and comparative analysis of both the contextual catalysts and the originality of the theologically essentialist writings by Church of England theologian Daniel Waterland (1683-1740). Overviewing the most relevant contemporary …