Index Unitarianism

According to the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, UNITA'RIAN means “one who denies the doctrine of the trinity, and ascribes divinity to God the Father only.” It denies the full deity of Jesus Christ, saying that He was a created Being. John Biddle (1615-1662) is the founder of Unitarianism. Listed here is some of the Unitarians in the late 18th and 19th century: Joseph Priestly, William Wordsworth, William Beckford, Richard Price, Theophilus Lindsey, William Godwin, Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, John Relly Beard, William Gaskell, Thomas Christie, Thomas Belsham, William Bentley, William Hazlitt, James Freeman, Horace Mann, James Martineau, Joseph Johnson, George A. Case (Pastor of High Street Chapel In Shrewsbury 1797-1831 where Charles Darwin received his early religious training.), Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Samuel T. Coleridge.