Description

This seminar will explore the intellectual shapers of the Unitarian and Universalist traditions in the nineteenth century, with special attention to the founders and formative theologians of each tradition, the challenges of Transcendentalism and Spiritualism, and the interactions of Unitarianism and Universalism with broader currents of religious liberalism in the United States. Male and female, lay and ordained, elite and popular thinkers will all be represented. Featured writers may include John Murray, Judith Sargent Murray, Hosea Ballou, Joseph Priestley, William Ellery Channing, Andrews Norton, Hannah Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Lydia Maria Child, Adin Ballou, James Freeman Clarke, Lucy Stone, Francis E. Abbot, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Celia Parker Woolley.

Enrollment Limited: No
Open to BTI Students: Yes
Jointly offered as Religion 1544

Scheduling

0.50 credits
Expected to be offered Spring 2015
Wed 1pm-4pm
Course location to be announced.

Relationship to Program Requirements

Program Requirement	Area / Category / Art / Designation
MTS Area(s) of Focus	History of Christianity Religions of the Americas Theology
MDiv Distribution Category/ies	Christianity
MDiv Art(s) of Ministry	None
Language Course Designation(s)	None