In the early 1990s, the Rev. Peter S. Raible of Seattle’s University Unitarian Church created a collection of materials relating to Unitarian and Universalist polity. Today, the materials in this packet continue to be used in UU seminarians’ courses on congregational polity. Harvard Square Library is grateful for the permission extended by Raible’s relatives allowing HSL to make the material available online, as is our custom, for free to a worldwide audience.
- Table of Contents
- HSL’s Introduction to “Polity Among the Unitarians and Universalists”
- Acknowledgements for “Polity Among the UUs,” by Peter Raible
- Preface to “Polity Among the UUs,” by Patricia Bowen
- Biography of Rev. Peter Raible
- The Unitarians and the Universalists
- The Polish Brethren
- The Diet of Torda
- James II’s “The Declaration of Indulgence,” 1688
- “Liberal Dissenters Unite to Form the Unitarian Church”
- Conrad Wright’s Walking Together, Chapter 2
- The Mayflower Compact
- “The Salem Symbols”
- “The Principles of 1645” by Thomas Hooker
- “A Study in the Problem of Authority in Congregational Church Order”
- The Cambridge Platform of 1648
- “The Significance and Influence of the Cambridge Platform of 1848” by Henry Wilder Foote
- Conrad Wright’s Walking Together, Chapter 1
- Conrad Wright’s Walking Together, Chapter 5
- “The Meeting House,” by David D. Hall
- “Congregational Clericalism: New England Ordinations before the Great Awakening”
- “Preface to the Result of 1662”
- “The Proposals of 1705”
- “The Declaration of a Number of the Associated Pastors Relating to the Reverend Mr. James Davenport and His Conduct”
- “Revivalistic Innovations,” by C.C. Goen
- “On Revivals of Religion,” by Nathaniel Thayer
- “Religious Tendencies in Colonial New England,” by Earl Morse Wilbur
- “Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition” by Paul Harrison
- Sidney E. Mead, “The Nation with the Soul of a Church”
- “Why Unitarian,” by Phillip Hewett
- “Remarks on Associations,” by William Ellery Channing
- “The Church and the Parish in Massachusetts,” by George E. Ellis
- “Unitarian Universalist Denominational Structure,” in Conrad Wright’s Walking Together
- “The Growth of Denominational Bureaucracies,” by Conrad Wright
- “Lecture I: 1825,” by Virgil E. Murdock
- Earl Morse Wilbur’s “The Period of Controversy: 1800-1825”
- “Organization and Development of the Unitarian Movement,” by Earl Morse Wilbur
- “Evangelical Unitarianism,” by Thomas L. Smith
- “Tensions in Unitarianism A Hundred Years Ago,” by Frederick May Eliot
- James Freeman Clarke, “A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the Chapel”
- “On Some Results of the Voluntary System,” by J. H. Allen
- “Our Church, As Seen by Religious Geography,” by Ron Clark
- “M. Grandpierre on American Unitarianism,” by John Pierpoint
- “A Sermon on the Principles and Methods of the Church of the Disciples,” by James Freeman Clarke
- “The Period of Radicalism,” by George Willis Cooke
- Sylvester Judd, “The Birthright Church”
- Frederic Henry Hedge, “The Broad Church”
- Henry Bellows, “The Relation of Liberal Christians to a True Theology and a Higher Religious Life”
- Henry Bellows, “The Suspense of Faith”
- “Henry W. Bellows and the Organization of the National Conference,” by Conrad Wright
- “The Unitarian Church Matures and Finds its Mission” By Earl Morse Wilbur
- “The Denominational Awakening” By George Willis Cooke
- “Some Conditions of the Modern Ministry” By Samuel Hobart Winkley
- “The Reformed Church of Christendom or the Duties of Liberal Christians to the National Faith at this Crisis of Opinions” By Henry W. Bellows
- “On the Alleged Unattractiveness of the Christian Pulpit” By Henry W. Bellows
- The Battle of Syracuse By Edward T. Atkinson
- “A Voice Without a Hand” By Stow Persons
- “The Destinies of Ecclesiastical Religion” By Frederic H. Hedge
- “People and Minister” By Edward Everett Hale
- “Ecclesiastical and Denominational Tendencies” By Grindall Reynolds
- “Growth of Denominational Consciousness” by George Willis Cooke
- “Past Experiences with Unitarian Organization” By Francis A. Christie
- “The American Unitarian Organization” By George Willis Cooke
- “An Address to Unitarians” By Sidney E. Mead
- “Unitarian Yearbook 1900” By The American Universalist Association
- “Official Report of the Proceedings of the General Conference”
- “The Community Church” By John Haynes Holmes
- “Handbook for Unitarian Churches”
- “Work and Dreams and the Wide Horizon” By Louis C. Cornish
- Commission on Appraisal – Unitarians Face a New Age: “Findings and Recommendations”
- Commission on Appraisal Unitarians Face a New Age
- Polity Among the Universalists: The First Century (1770-1870)
