Chapter XXI: “The Period of Controversy: 1800-1825”
by Earl Morse Wilbur
in A History of Unitarianism in Transylvania, England, and America
(Harvard, 1952) pages 401-34
Wilbur quickly noted the issues that led to the unwilling birth of Unitarianism. The key event, a professional appointment at Harvard, took place not in the churches themselves, but suggests how strong were the informal ties of that time.…