Word: universalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting in Rochester, N.Y. for their week-long Biennial Assembly, 700 delegates of the Universalist Church of America talked about cutting loose once & for all from "supernatural Christianity" and proclaiming a "truly universal faith." The Universalist Church, said the Rev. Brainard Gibbons of Wausau, Wis., should "proclaim a new type of universalism which is boundless in scope, as broad as humanity, and as infinite as the universe. For a long time, Universalists have been reaching beyond the narrow bounds of Christianity to pluck their grapes of knowledge from the vines growing in the boundless vineyards of truth, and the religious...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Because about one in every four U.S. marriages fails, the Rev. Gordon B. McKeeman, a Universalist minister in Worcester, Mass., decided that perhaps the old wedding vows were exacting too much of a promise from newlyweds. Now, he said, if the couple agrees, he is willing to change the vow from "So long as ye both shall live," to one he considers more in tune with the times-"So long as ye both shall love...
...definition of the difference between Unitarians and Universalists [is that] the Universalist believes God is too good to damn him, and the Unitarian believes he is too good to be damned...
...Modernist? The Council's constitution forbids the drawing up of any common creed, and bars from membership extremely "liberal" churches which deny Christ's divinity. In 1944, the Council voted against admitting the Universalist Church (45,000 members). Other sizable nonmember churches: Unitarian, Southern Baptist, most Lutheran groups.' Chief complaint of most Baptist and Lutheran groups, who are basically fundamentalist, is that the Council itself is too modernist, leftist and pacifist...