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Show I The Establishment of Unitarianism in Utah and Its Collapse 1891-1900 ALTHOUGH in THE FORMAL ESTABLISHMENT Salt Lake of a Unitarian society City dates from February 1891, one must history of the Unitarian move growth of religious liberalism in Utah. understand how the overall ment relates to the general sense Unitarianism is part of a tradition truth-seeking based on human reason which is manifest In a positions that do not of in coincide with orthodox Christian doctrines about God and Jesus of Nazareth. With the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices it is now confirmed that of the meaning of the second half of the first century differing interpretations go back to time when Christianity - the very the traditional Gospels were being written. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, complained in the second century that heretics boasted about having more Gospels than the traditional four. At least some of the Gospels excluded by the orthodox are found in the Nag Hammadi library. By the end of the second century the orthodox had established bishops, priests, and deacons as their authority. Following the Council of Nicea in 325 Trinitarian views by Roman A.D. and the enforcement of the Emperor Constantine forty years later, writings which refuted orthodox Christian doctrines were destroyed, and the views of Gnostic Christians (among 1 |
