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Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism or universal morality) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics applies universally.That system is inclusive of all individuals, [7] regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or any other distinguishing feature. [8]
Richard Eddy (1828–1906) – minister and author of 1886 book Universalism in America. [5] James Chuter Ede (1882–1965) – British teacher, trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (1945–1951) and President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches; Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) – landscape architect [3]
Scholars Hosea Ballou (Ancient History of Universalism, 1828), John Wesley Hanson (Universalism: The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years, 1899), George T. Knight (The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1911), and Pierre Batiffol (Catholic Encyclopedia, 1914) catalogued some early ...
Universalism is a theological and philosophical concept that some ideas have universal application or applicability. A community that calls itself universalist may emphasize the universal principles of most religions, and accept others in an inclusive manner. It is centered around the belief in a universal reconciliation between humanity and ...
The president of the UUA is its CEO and the religious leader of Unitarian Universalism in the United States. A former UUA president is Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, who was elected at the 2017 UUA General Assembly in New Orleans, Louisiana ; she was expected to be the first president to serve a single six-year term, per a 2010 bylaw change. [ 22 ]
Members of the Universalist Church of America claimed universalist beliefs among some early Christians such as Origen. [5] [6] Richard Bauckham in Universalism: a historical survey ascribes this to Platonist influence, and notes that belief in the final restoration of all souls seems to have been not uncommon in the East during the fourth and fifth centuries and was apparently taught by ...
The Christian Universalist Church of America is a small non-creedal denominational body created in 1964 in Deerfield Beach, Florida [1] as a result of the merger between the Universalist Church of America with the American Unitarian Association in 1961. [2]
Unitarian Universalism was formed from the consolidation in 1961 of two historically separate Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, [5] both based in the United States; the new organization formed in this merger was the Unitarian Universalist Association. [20]