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Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian movement of Christianity, which affirms the unitary nature of God as the singular and unique creator of the universe. Unitarian theology critiques the traditional Christian theology of the Trinity, which regarded God as three distinct but unified beings—transcendent Creator God, human Savior God (i.e., Jesus Christ), and immanent Spiritual God (i.e., the Holy Spirit). Unitarians viewed this understanding of God as a later theological corruption, and they embraced a view of God as a singular, unified entity; in most Unitarian theological interpretations, Jesus C
transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday. They thought of physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than as discrete entities.
Unitarian Universalism
liberal religion formed in 1961 by the merger of the Unitarians and the Universalists
Socinianism
thumb|right|230px|Fausto Sozzini (1539–1604), the theologian namesake of Socinianism
pre-existence of Christ
existence of Christ before his incarnation as Jesus
American Unitarian Association
organization
Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
Presbyterian Christian theological movement originating in Ireland emphasizing individual conscience in matters of Christian faith.
Szekler Sabbatarians
Transylvanian and Hungarian Unitarian religious group