Adams, James Luther, The Prophethood of All Believers, ed. George K. Beach (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986); pp 52,53,54,55
"There is no such thing as poetry without poems, art without paintings, architecture without
buildings, and there is no such thing as an enduring faith without
beliefs." "Faith," he continues, "must have a definite form" and "Freedom requires a body as well
as a spirit." "There is no such thing as goodness as such ... There is only the good spouse, the
good worker, the good employer, the good churchperson, the good citizen. The decisive forms of
goodness in society are institutional forms."
Bible, The New Oxford Annotated, New Revised Standard Version, With
Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, Ed. Bruce M. Metzger and Roland E. Murphy (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Carpenter, Victor H., The Black Empowerment Controversy and The Unitarian Universalist
Association, The Minns Lectures, 1983 (Boston: Privately printed, 1983).
the vote by the 1968 General Assembly of the
Unitarian Universalist Association in Cleveland to fund the Black Affairs Council in the
amount of one million dollars as the UUA's corporate response to the Black Rebellion
Commission of Appraisal, Unitarians Face a New Age (Boston: American Unitarian
Association, 1936).
the
establishment by the annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association in 1934 of the
original AUA Commission of Appraisal in response to demands by James Luther Adams
and others
Meeks, Wayne A., The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1983); p.108
"the smallest cell of the Christian movement, the
household assembly."
Meeks, Wayne A., The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1983); p80)
"Because Christianity was an offshoot of Judaism, the urban Christian groups obviously had the
diaspora synagogue as the nearest and most natural model."
Parke, David B., "Theological Directions of Unitarian Universalism for the Next 25 Years, " The
Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, Fall/Winter, 1989, pp. 5- "The Faith That Is In
Us," The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Vol. 50, No. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 1995, pp. 14-23.
Walker, Williston, The Creeds and Plaftforms of Congregationalism (Boston.. The Pilgrim
Press, 1960; first ed. 1893); pp203-237
Walker, Williston, The Creeds and Plaftforms of Congregationalism (Boston.. The Pilgrim
Press, 1960; first ed. 1893); p208
Only individuals possess faith. The congregation is established and upheld by the
covenant of faith of the persons who constitute it.
Walker, Williston, The Creeds and Plaftforms of Congregationalism (Boston.. The Pilgrim
Press, 1960; first ed. 1893); p208
"where
there is a real agreement ... of a company of faithful persons to meet constantly together in one
congregation"
Wright, Conrad, ed., A Stream of Light, Chapter 3, "Salute the Arriving Moment," by Conrad
Wright.
...the establishment by Henry W. Bellows and
others of the National Conference of Unitarian Churches in 1865
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