Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Unitarian William Ellery Channing on This Day in History

 

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This Day in History: Leading Unitarian thinker William Ellery Channing was born on this day in 1780. Unitarians, if you ask some mainstream Christians, are "the modern revival of the ancient heresy of Arianism, which denied the full deity of Jesus Christ and rejected the Trinity doctrine." What many don't know is that Unitarianism left a great mark on the founding of America. William Ellery Channing for instance was a grandson of William Ellery (1727–1820), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Unitarian Benjamin Rush also signed the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, the second President of the United States was a(n) Unitarian, as was John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft and Millard Fillmore. American Revolutionary War patriot Ethan Allen was a(n) Unitarian, as well as Paul Revere.

I was surprised to learn that American abolitionist and libertarian anarchist Lysander Spooner also a(n) Unitarian. Interestingly, Unitarian and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Lemuel Shaw, convicted another Unitarian, Abner Kneeland, of blasphemy.



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