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Unitarianism
Unitarian Universalism; Socinianism
1565 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Transylvania, Poland, UK, US
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
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- 1553 CE Servetus burned at Geneva.
- <strong>1568 CE</strong> The Edict of Torda, issued by the Unitarian king John Sigismund of Transylvania at Dávid's urging, grants freedom of preaching to Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist and Unitarian alike — the first act of broad religious toleration in Europe.
- 1579 CE Dávid dies in prison for refusing to worship Christ.
- 1605 CE Racovian Catechism published in Poland.
- 1658 CE The Polish Brethren are expelled from Poland.
- 1774, 1785 CE First Unitarian congregations in London and in Boston.
- 1819 CE William Ellery Channing's Baltimore sermon defines American Unitarianism; New England Congregationalism splits.
- 1836–60s CE Transcendentalism — Emerson, Thoreau, Theodore Parker — emerges from and then criticises Unitarianism for being too tame.
- 1863 CE Olympia Brown becomes the first woman ordained by a full denomination in the United States (Universalist).
- 1961 CE Unitarians and Universalists merge into the UUA.
- 1965 CE James Reeb, a Unitarian minister, is beaten to death in Selma.
- 1970 CE Among the first denominations to affirm gay and lesbian members; performs same-sex unions from the 1980s.
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