American Unitarian Association
| American Unitarian Association | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Unitarian |
| Polity | Congregational |
| Region | Canada and United States |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Origin | May 26, 1825 |
| Separated from | Congregational churches |
| Merged into | Unitarian Universalist Association (1961) |
The American Unitarian Association (AUA) was a religious denomination in the United States and Canada, formed by associated Unitarian congregations in 1825. In 1961, it consolidated with the Universalist Church of America to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.[1]
The AUA was formed in 1825 in the aftermath of a split within New England's Congregational churches between those congregations that embraced Unitarian doctrines and those that maintained Calvinist theology.[2]
According to Mortimer Rowe, the Secretary (i.e. chief executive) of the British Unitarians for 20 years, the AUA was founded on the same day as the British and Foreign Unitarian Association: "By a happy coincidence, in those days of slow posts, no transatlantic telegraph, telephone or wireless, our American cousins, in complete ignorance as to the details of what was afoot, though moving towards a similar goal, founded the American Unitarian Association on precisely the same day—May 26, 1825."[3]
The AUA's official journal was The Christian Register (1821–1961).
Notable member congregations[]
- First Unitarian Church (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Federal Street Church (Boston)
- First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
- Unitarian Church of All Souls
- First Unitarian Church of Oakland
- First Unitarian Church of Berkeley
- First Unitarian Church of Chicago
- Unitarian Church of Urbana
- First Unitarian Church of Detroit
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.)
- Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington
- Unitarian Church in Charleston
See also[]
- Joseph Priestley House
- List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches
- Meadville Lombard Theological School
- Theophilus Lindsey
- William Ellery Channing
References[]
- ^ "Timeline of Significant Events in the Merger of the Unitarian and Universalist Churches During the 1900s". Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Harvard Divinity School. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Youngs, J. William T. (1998). The Congregationalists. Denominations in America. 4 (Student ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. p. 127. ISBN 9780275964412.
- ^ (Rowe 1959, chpt. 3)
Bibliography[]
- Rowe, Mortimer, B.A., D.D. The History of Essex Hall. London: Lindsey Press, 1959. Full text reproduced here.
- Wright, Conrad, ed. A Stream of Light. A Short History of American Unitarianism. 2nd ed. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1975, 1989.
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