Unitarian Universalists are currently engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on the "language of reverence." The dialogue revolves around two big questions: "Are we talking about religion in a way adequate to our needs as a religious community?" and "What are we talking about when we talk about religion?" In this anthology, five prominent Unitarian Universalists illuminate these issues from different perspectives.
Unitarian Universalists are currently engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on the "language of reverence." The dialogue revolves around two big questi...
Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people--words that inspired Abraham Lincoln. Parker had more influence than anyone except Ralph Waldo Emerson in shaping Transcendentalism in America.
In American Heretic, Dean Grodzins offers a compelling account of the remarkable first phase of Parker's...
Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agi...
