Henry Whitney Bellows and “A New Catholic Church”: The Making of Unitarianism in the Shadow of the Civil War

This article examines the evolution of Bellow’s proposal for a newly reformed Unitarian “catholic” church during the 1850s and 1860s. For Bellows in particular, political, cultural, and ecclesiastical matters collided in his efforts to transform a diffuse set of liberal Christian churches in fellows...

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Опубликовано в: :Church history and religious culture
Главный автор: Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2018
В: Church history and religious culture
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Bellows, Henry W. 1814-1882 / Унитарии / USA / Объединение / Католицизм (мотив) / История (мотив) 1850-1865
Индексация IxTheo:CG Христианство и политика
KAH Новое время
KBQ Северная Америка
KDB Католическая церковь
KDG Свободная церковь
RB Священнослужители
Другие ключевые слова:B Henry Whitney Bellows American Civil War Unitarians Unitarianism Transcendentalism Catholicism
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Итог:This article examines the evolution of Bellow’s proposal for a newly reformed Unitarian “catholic” church during the 1850s and 1860s. For Bellows in particular, political, cultural, and ecclesiastical matters collided in his efforts to transform a diffuse set of liberal Christian churches in fellowship into a denomination of national, even global, caliber. The creation of this “new catholic church” would, in turn, help to heal an ailing nation. There are two questions driving this narrative. First, how did Bellows arrive at the conclusion that Unitarianism was the future of Christendom, the more “Protestant-Protestantism,” or even more boldly, the “more Catholic-Catholicism?” Secondly, how did Bellows arrive at the conclusion that uniting Christendom under a “catholic” Unitarian banner could unite a fractured country? During the early 1860s, the language of nationalism and catholicity merged in Bellows’ organization of the National Convention.
ISSN:1871-2428
Второстепенные работы:In: Church history and religious culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09801001