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Comment on 1803 Winchester Profession by Boy in the Bands - A must-download for church planters

Boy in the Bands - A must-download for church planters — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:17:22 +0000

[...] 2. It helps conceptually integrate the three documents we’re OK with — corporate articles, constitution (or bylaws) and covenant — with one we don’t integrate well: a theological statement, whether that be the UUA’s Principles and Purposes or a Universalist avowal. [...]

Comment on Rhode Island (Universalist) Catechism of 1865 by Boy in the Bands - So what’s a creedal test?

Boy in the Bands - So what’s a creedal test? — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:08:59 +0000

[...] alternative that, in a sense, embeds the meaning of the Winchester Profession. Some did, say the Rhode Island Catechism and the 1903 Creed, perhaps to make them more liturgically useful. (Indeed, the later “Five [...]

Comment on 1803 Winchester Profession by Boy in the Bands - An old reflection on what it means to be a Universalist church

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:20:55 +0000

[...] — [I.] An expressed assent to the Confession of Faith adopted by the General Convention of Universalists, at Winchester, N. H., A. D. 1803, shall be [...]

Comment on Life and Trance of George deBenneville by Muslim Influence on the Roots of Unitarian-Universalism « Transient and Permanent

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:59:57 +0000

[...] spiritual journey that ended with him espousing Universalism in pre-revolutionary America. The whole account is well worth reading, especially as it shows the emotional and mystical flavor of many early [...]

Comment on Universalist General Convention Model Church Constitution by Boy in the Bands - Unincorporated churches: the why of UUA polity

Boy in the Bands - Unincorporated churches: the why of UUA polity — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:31:19 +0000

[...] I’ve written at length about the parish-church (or society-church) model of church organizing upon which both Unitarians and Universalists have historically organized, but to recap, a parish or society functions as a legal and fiscal entity which incubate and later holds a church. The parish or society hold the building and the money, is governed by elected officers, is usually incorporated, and could easily look to the outside world as a secular charity, save that it “shared” a minister with “its” church. (Unitarians were fond calling the minister, with respect to the parish, “a public teacher.”) The church is then a spiritual body, governed by the minister (as pastor) and deacons, provides spiritual support and the ordinances (sacraments) and in the Universalists’ case, often bound its members to some recognition to a theological statement. See this example. [...]

Comment on “Fifteen Reasons for Preaching Universalism” (1858) by Boy in the Bands - My Universalism in June post

Boy in the Bands - My Universalism in June post — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:36:08 +0000

[...] century Universalist minister S. J. McMorris’s question, that if Universalism is true, “what is the use of preaching it?” Include anti-Universalist literature and discuss the role of morality in Universalist [...]

Comment on 1786 Charter of Compact, Independent Christian Church by Boy in the Bands - Covenant, overplayed

Boy in the Bands - Covenant, overplayed — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:33:06 +0000

[...] as now extolled — was not what Universalists had. Consider the Gloucester, Massachusetts 1786 Charter of Compact — this was John Murray’s pastorate — and in a day when the church-parish split [...]

Comment on 1891 Universalist General Convention governance by Boy in the Bands - The whole UGC polity manual for the asking

Boy in the Bands - The whole UGC polity manual for the asking — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:48:46 +0000

[...] to wrap up this particular project, I will finish the website later tonight and (for a limited time only) will email a copy of the whole booklet (250k in PDF, by [...]

Comment on 1891 Universalist General Convention governance by Boy in the Bands - “Manual of the Universalist General Convention” (1891)

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:47:53 +0000

[...] http://universalistchurch.net/universalist-history/1891-universalist-general-convention-governance/ [2009. Moved from original posting. URL [...]