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Show J. Raymond Cope What is Unitarianism? 4 October 1942 THE UNITARIAN CHURCH claims is unique among religious groups. of insight which is It part of the common of the the and the Philosopher. Its Poet, Scientist, heritage objectives are precisely those of the ordinary man who is no source attempting realize a to use not all the human faculties at his command to well-ordered life for himself and the beloved things of this world which affect the course of human destiny. In the place of an authoritative creed, it holds to the authority of a disciplined Community; its interests are in all mind, the method of scientific inquiry, the test and the claims of ideals which have been forged by his search for his better self. More than this of experience, man we cannot in claim; justification founding Faith upon anything which goes beyond the limits of human experience and the in we see no a natural powers native to the human mind. A list of Unitarian leaders of other days reads like of the leaders in American culture; progressive movement has drawn heavily leadership. Nor is this movement removes contributes to the roster humanitarian or in America but upon Unitarian laymen and clergy for surprising. The philosophy on which limitations, tomorrow will a has found expression the Unitarian church is founded, accord with any hardly a man is in from his human progress, or which The world of of human life. obstacles dignity clearly understood, which releases to discover that the attitudes of mind and quality 265 |
