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-return to top- Year | Title/Other Files | Author | 2012
| From iChurch to Beloved Community:
Ecclesiology and Justice
| Fredric J. Muir
Responses
| 2011
| "Whence We Come and How, and Whither"
| Deborah J. Pope-Lance
| 2010
| "The Poetics of Ministry”
| Gary Kowalski
| 2009: | Ironic Provincialism | Paul Rasor Response | 2008: | Imagineering Soul | Christine Robinson Response | 2007: | "It's the Minister: The Mystery and Magic of the Role" | Ken Sawyer | 2006: | What Torture’s Taught Me | William F. Schulz Response
| 2005: | The Way Home | Burton D. Carley | 2004: | Taking Refuge | Barbara Merritt | 2003: | Images for our Lives | Laurel Hallman | 2002: | Spiritual Teaching | Roberta M. Nelson | 2001: | The Art of Ministry: Being and Doing Revisited | C. Leon Hopper | 2000: | After Running Through the Thistles: the Hard Part Begins | Mark D. Morrison-Reed | 1999: | Lessons From Our Bishop / Lessons From the Heart | Carolyn & Thomas Owen-Towle | 1998: | The Fundamental Things Apply as Time Goes By:
The Transient And Permanent In Life And Ministry | Khoren Arisian | 1997: | On Issues Affecting Parish Ministry | Judith A. Walker-Riggs | 1996:
| Confessions of a Militant Mystic:
Spirituality and Social Action – A Seamless Garment | Richard S. Gilbert
| 1995: | Koheleth Headache | Thomas Payne | 1994: | Beyond Spirituality | Carl Scovel | 1993: | Ministry: For Such a Time as This | Gordon B. McKeeman | 1992: | Ministry as Companioning | Elizabeth H. Baker | 1991: | The Challenge of Disability | Victor Carpenter | 1990: | Ministry as Art Form | Sidney A. Peterman | 1989: | Euthanasia As Public Policy: Rights And Risks | Donald W. McKinney | 1988: | Minding Our P's, Q's, and X's | Joyce Harkleroad Smith | 1987: | 25 Beacon Street Revisited | O. Eugene Pickett | 1986: | Religion, The Church, and Our Mission in the World | John Wolf | 1985: | Active Religion’s Passive Voice | Roy D. Phillips | 1984: | Theology and the Democracy of the Sciences | John F. Hayward | 1983:
| Parish Ministry and Pedagogy: 1823-1983
A Past and Future Look at Religious Education | Eugene B. Navias
| 1982: | Impersonating the Divine: An Essay in Theological Anthropology | Dwight Brown | 1981: | A Silent Witness to Evil | David O. Rankin | 1980: | Seasons of Ministry | Alan G. Deale | 1979: | The New Pietism | J. Frank Schulman | 1978: | Images of Protestant Clergy in American Novels | Peter S. Raible | 1977: | Hymnbook Reminiscences and Reflections | Vincent B. Silliman | 1976: | On the Boundary—A Christian Perspective | Judith L. Hoehler | 1975: | Hybris and Humility | Leonard Mason | 1974: | Liberal Religion in the Post Christian Era | Edward A. Cahill | 1973: | Where Has Time Brought Us? | Charles Stephen | 1972: | Liberal Religion’s Unfinished Business | Edwin H. Wilson | 1971: | Polarization or Reconciliation | John G. MacKinnon | 1970: | On Being a Technician of the Sacred | Frank D. Gentile | 1969: | The Ministry—Experience and Expectation | Arthur Graham | 1968:
| The Genius Of The Age And Some Suggestions Toward An Imaginative Liberal Faith | Frank O. Holmes
| 1967: | The Odd Man: A description of the liberal minister | John Willoughby Cyrus | 1966: | Why Not More Progress in Religion? | Dale DeWitt | 1965: | Plenitude of Being | Kenneth L. Patton | 1964: | The Church: Salient or Subordinate? | Dorothy T. Spoerl | 1963: | Politics and the Pulpit | Stephen H. Fritchman | 1962: | Psychoanalysis and the Parish Ministry | Harry B. Scholefield | 1961: | America’s Fourth Faith | Robert Zoerheide | 1960: | Liberalism in the Encounter Between Living World Religions | Leslie T. Pennington | 1959: | The Soul's Fierce Struggle | J Raymond Cope | 1958: | Unitarianism Reincarnate | Thaddeus B. Clark | 1957: | Motivation and the Ministry (abridged) | Malcolm R. Sutherland, Jr. | 1955: | Psychological Approach to the Concept of the Deity | David Rhys Williams | 1954: | In Search of God | Henry Wilder Foote | 1950: | Sebastian Castellio: Neglected Saint of the Liberal Church | Duncan Howlett | 1949:
| "The Greatest Soul in Christendom”
and His Stand on Free Religion | Robert H. Schacht Jr.
| 1944: | The American Religion | Albert C. Dieffenback | 1942: | Democracy as a Modern Religion | Jacob Trapp | 1941: | The Changing Reputation of Human Nature | James Luther Adams | 1937: | The Church and the Academy | Von Ogden Vogt | 1934: | The Breaking of Nations (published as "After Thirty Years") | John Haynes Holmes | 1933: | The Bacchae of Euripides | Thomas H. Billings | 1930: | Summary: Religious Mysticism | Lawrence Clare | 1929: | Are We Outgrowing the Need for a Church? | Anna Garlin Spencer | 1927: | The Underlying Significance of the Fundamental Changes in the Religion of Our Times | Horace Westwood | 1923: | Is There Need Of A Revolution In The Theological Curriculum? | Franklin C. Southworth | 1922: | Religion and the Downmost Man (abstract) | James A. Fairley | 1921: | Jesus and the End of the World | Clayton R. Bowen | 1920: | The Meaning and Lessons of Unitarian History | Earl Morse Wilbur | 1919: | Unitarianism and Social Change | Richard Wilson Boynton | 1918: | The Nature and Validity of Conscience and Moral Principle | Robert James Hutcheon | 1916: | How the Scientific and Religious Interpretations of the World Differ | Joel Hastings Metcalf | 1911: | Socialism | Nicholas Paine Gilman | 1908: | Theology from the Far End and the Near | Frederic Gill | 1905: | Channing and the History of Christian Piety | Francis A. Christie | 1903: | The Poetic Element in the Rising Faith | William Channing Gannett | 1902: | The Character of Jesus Christ | Francis Greenwood Peabody | 1901: | Experimental Theology and Experimental Religion | Samuel R. Calthrop | 1900: | [My Creed-(no title given)-Abstract] | Charles Hargrove | 1899: | The Theology of Civilization | Charles Fletcher Dole | 1897: | Reason in Religion | Charles Carroll Everett | 1896: | The Infection of Pessimism | George Batchelor | 1895: | Christianity and Unitarianism | Charles Gordon Ames | 1892: | The History and Present Duty of the Unitarian Church in America | Edward Everett Hale | 1890: | Christianity in the Process of Evolution | George Augustus Thayer | 1889: | What O’Clock Is It In Religion? | Minot J. Savage | 1888: | The Reign of Divine Love | Howard Nicholson Brown | 1887: | Religion from the Near End | Jenkin Lloyd Jones | 1886: | The Twofold Symbol of Godhead | Joseph May | 1886: | God | Samuel Robert Calthrop | 1884: | A Daring Faith | John W. Chadwick | 1883: | Christian Affirmations | Henry Wilder Foote | 1880: | The Inspiration and Work of the Christian Ministry | William Greenleaf Eliot | 1879: | The New Religion | Grindell Reynolds | 1876: | Then and Now | Joseph Henry Allen | 1875: | Jesus, the Only | William Henry Furness | 1874: | The Christian Progress of a Generation | Rufus Ellis | 1873: | Religion and Evolution | S.R. Calthrop | 1871: | Unitarian Principles And Doctrines | Charles H. Brigham | 1870: | Summary: What is True Channing Unitarianism? | William Henry Channing | 1869: | | Amory Dwight Mayo | 1868: | The Faith of Science and the Science of Faith | Charles Carroll Everett | 1867: | Basis and Superstructure | Orville Dewey | 1866: | The Destinies of Ecclesiastical Religion: A Concio Ad Clerum. | Frederic Henry Hedge | 1865: | Summary: The Necessity and Value of Associations | Henry Whitney Bellows | 1864: | The Scope and Powers of the New Criticism | George Edward Ellis | 1863: | Summary: The Preacher's Duty | Thomas Hill | 1862: | Universality of the Christian Religion as contrasted with other forms of faith, ethnic or unlimited to race or nation | James Freeman Clarke | 1861: | Summary: The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity | Andrew Preston Peabody | 1860: | The Broad Church | Frederic Henry Hedge | 1859: | The Key of the Kingdom | Cyrus Bartol | 1858: | Deficiencies of Unitarian Theology | Octavius Brooks Frothingham | 1857:
| The Practical Study of the Soul by our Ministers: Or, Pastoral Psychology | Samuel Osgood
| 1856: | The Written Word and the Christian Consciousness | Oliver Stearns | 1855a: | Summary: The Relation of Christianity and the Christian Ministry to the Secular Activity of the Times | Ephraim Peabody
| 1855b: | Reform as Affecting the Rights of Property | Samuel J. May | 1854: | Polemics and Irenics | James Freeman Clarke | 1851a: | Ecclesiastic Christendom | Frederic Henry Hedge | 1851: | Summary: Social Reform | John Pierpont | 1850a:
| The Importance of Systematic Theology, and the Duty of the Unitarian Clergy in Relation to It | George Washington Burnap
| 1850b: | Fraternal Cooperation | William Henry Channing | 1849: | The Nature and Importance of our Theology | Ezra S. Gannett | 1848:
| Summary: The Difficulties and Discouragements, Responsibilities and Duties, incident to the Position of Liberal Ministers at this time | Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
| 1847: | Relation of Liberal Christianity to Our Age and Country | Samuel Barrett | 1846: | Relation of the Christian Ministry to Reform | Edward B. Hall | 1845: | Rights, Claims, and Duties of Opinion | Orville Dewey | 1844: | Alleged Defects of Unitarian Preaching | Charles Robinson | 1843:
| Summary: The Religious Aspects of the Community, and the Duty of Unitarian clergymen in regard to them | Edmund Q. Sewell
| 1842: | Ecclesiastical History | Alvan Lamson | 1841: | Summary: Our Peculiar Position as Liberal Christian—Our Duties and Prospects | Andrew Bigelow
| 1840: | Miracles as an Evidence of Christianity | David Damon | 1836: | Summary: Real and Alleged Defects of the Preaching of Unitarian Ministers | James Walker
| 1835: | The Best Means of Bringing our Lay Brethren to be More Useful in the Maintenance of Religious Institutions | Henry Ware, Jr. | 1832: | The Duty of ministers to interest themselves in providing a further supply of candidates for the ministry | John Gorham Palfrey | 1831: | The Modes of Exerting Religious Influence at the Present Day | Nathaniel Thayer | 1830: | Changes in Religions Opinions and the Character of Preaching in New England during the Last Fifty Years | Ezra Ripley | 1826: | Duty of Unitarians with Respect to Christianity in India | Henry Ware, Sr. | 1825: | The Effect of Character on Ministerial Usefulness | Winthrop Bailey | 1824: | On the Duties of the Church as Distinct from the Congregation... | Nathan Parker | 1823: | The Means to be used by Ministers for Giving the Young Adequate Views of the Nature and Importance of True Christianity | James Flint | 1822: | The Difficulties of the Christian Ministry at the Present Period | Joseph Tuckerman | 1821: | Summary: On the Prevalent Defects of Liberal Ministers | Abiel Abbot | 1820: | How Far is Reason to be Used in Explaining Revelation? | William Ellery Channing |
Listing by Author:
-return to top- Author | Title | Year | Abbot, Abiel | Summary: On the Prevalent Defects of Liberal Ministers | 1821 | Adams, James Luther | The Changing Reputation of Human Nature | 1941 | Allen, Joseph Henry | Then and Now | 1876 | Ames, Charles Gordon | Christianity and Unitarianism | 1895 | Arisian, Khoren | The Fundamental Things Apply as Time Goes By:
The Transient And Permanent In Life And Ministry | 1998 | Bailey, Winthrop | The Effect of Character on Ministerial Usefulness | 1825 | Baker, Elizabeth H. | Ministry as Companioning | 1992 | Barrett, Samuel | Relation of Liberal Christianity to Our Age and Country | 1847 | Bartol, Cyrus | The Key of the Kingdom | 1859 | Batchelor, George | The Infection of Pessimism | 1896 | Bellows, Henry Whitney | Summary: The Necessity and Value of Associations | 1865 | Bigelow, Andrew
| Summary: Our Peculiar Position as Liberal Christian—Our Duties and Prospects | 1841
| Billings, Thomas H. | The Bacchae of Euripides | 1933 | Bowen, Clayton R. | Jesus and the End of the World | 1921 | Boynton, Richard Wilson | Unitarianism and Social Change | 1919 | Brigham, Charles H | Unitarian Principles And Doctrines | 1871 | Brown, Dwight
| Impersonating the Divine: An Essay in Theological Anthropology | 1982 | Brown, Howard Nicholson | The Reign of Divine Love | 1888 | Burnap, George Washington
| The Importance of Systematic Theology, and the Duty of the Unitarian Clergy in Relation to It | 1850
| Cahill, Edward A. | Liberal Religion in the Post Christian Era | 1974 | Calthrop, Samuel Robert | Experimental Theology and Experimental Religion | 1901 | Calthrop, Samuel Robert | God | 1886 | Calthrop, Samuel Robert | Religion and Evolution | 1873 | Carley, Burton D. | The Way Home | 2005 | Carpenter, Victor | The Challenge of Disability | 1991 | Chadwick, John W. | A Daring Faith | 1884 | Channing, William Ellery | How Far is Reason to be Used in Explaining Revelation? | 1820 | Channing, William Henry | Fraternal Cooperation | 1850 | Channing, William Henry | Summary: What is True Channing Unitarianism? | 1870 | Christie, Francis A. | Channing and the History of Christian Piety | 1905 | Clark, Thaddeus B. | Unitarianism Reincarnate | 1958 | Clare, Lawrence | Summary: The Mystical Element in Religion | 1930 | Clarke, James Freeman | Polemics and Irenics | 1854 | Clarke, James Freeman | Universality of the Christian Religion as contrasted with other forms of faith, ethnic or unlimited to race or nation | 1862 | Cope, J Raymond | The Soul's Fierce Struggle | 1959 | Cyrus, John Willoughby | The Odd Man: A description of the liberal minister | 1967 | Damon, David | Miracles as an Evidence of Christianity | 1840 | Deale, Alan G. | Seasons of Ministry | 1980 | Dewey, Orville | Basis and Superstructure | 1867 | Dewey, Orville | Rights, Claims, and Duties of Opinion | 1845 | DeWitt, Dale | Why Not More Progress in Religion? | 1966 | Dieffenback, Albert C. | The American Religion | 1944 | Dole, Charles Fletcher | The Theology of Civilization | 1899 | Eliot, William Greenleaf | The Inspiration and Work of the Christian Ministry | 1880 | Ellis, George Edward | The Scope and Powers of the New Criticism | 1864 | Ellis, Rufus | The Christian Progress of a Generation | 1874 | Everett, Charles Carroll | Reason in Religion | 1897 | Everett, Charles Carroll | The Faith of Science and the Science of Faith | 1868 | Fairley, James A. | Summary: Religion and the Downmost Man | 1922 | Flint, James | The Means to be used by Ministers for Giving the Young Adequate Views of the Nature and Importance of True Christianity | 1823 | Foote, Henry Wilder | In Search of God | 1954 | Foote, Henry Wilder | Christian Affirmations | 1883 | Fritchman, Stephen H. | Politics and the Pulpit | 1963 | Frothingham, Octavius Brooks | Deficiencies of Unitarian Theology | 1858 | Furness, William Henry | Jesus, the Only | 1875 | Gannett, Ezra Stiles | The Nature and Importance of our Theology | 1849 | Gannett, William Channing | The Poetic Element in the Rising Faith | 1903 | Gentile, Frank D. | On Being a Technician of the Sacred | 1970 | Gilbert, Richard S.
| Confessions of a Militant Mystic: Spirituality and Social Action – A Seamless Garment | 1996
| Gill, Frederic | Theology from the Far End and the Near | 1908 | Gilman, Nicholas Paine | Socialism | 1911 | Graham, Arthur | The Ministry—Experience and Expectation | 1969 | Hale, Edward Everett | The History and Present Duty of the Unitarian Church in America | 1892 | Hall, Edward B. | Relation of the Christian Ministry to Reform | 1846 | Hallman, Laurel | Images for our Lives | 2003 | Hargrove, Charles | Summary: [My Creed (no title Given)] | 1900 | Hayward, John F. | Theology and the Democracy of the Sciences | 1984 | Hedge, Frederic Henry | The Broad Church | 1860 | Hedge, Frederic Henry | The Destinies of Ecclesiastical Religion: A Concio Ad Clerum. | 1866 | Hedge, Frederic Henry | Ecclesiastic Christendom | 1851 | Hill, Thomas | Summary: The Preacher's Duty | 1863 | Hoehler, Judith L. | On the Boundary—A Christian Perspective | 1976 | Holmes, Frank O.
| The Genius Of The Age And Some Suggestions Toward An Imaginative Liberal Faith | 1968
| Holmes, John Haynes | The Breaking of Nations (published as "After Thirty Years") | 1934 | Hopper, C. Leon | The Art of Ministry: Being and Doing Revisited | 2001 | Howlett, Duncan | Sebastian Castellio: Neglected Saint of the Liberal Church | 1950 | Hutcheon, Robert James | The Nature and Validity of Conscience and Moral Principle | 1918 | Jones, Jenkin Lloyd | Religion from the Near End | 1887 | Kowalski, Gary
| "The Poetics of Ministry”
| 2010 | Lamson, Alvan | Ecclesiastical History | 1842 | Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland | Summary: The Difficulties and Discouragements, Responsibilities and Duties, incident to the Position of Liberal Ministers at this time | 1848
| Mason, Leonard | Hybris and Humility | 1975 | McKeeman, Gordon B. | Ministry: For Such a Time as This | 1993 | McKinney, Donald W. | Euthanasia As Public Policy: Rights And Risks | 1989 | MacKinnon, John G. | Polarization or Reconciliation | 1971 | May, Joseph | The Twofold Symbol of Godhead | 1886 | May. Samuel J. | Reform as Affecting the Rights of Property | 1855 | Mayo, Amory Dwight | Religious tendencies in the United States | 1869 | Merritt, Barbara | Taking Refuge | 2004 | Metcalf, Joel Hastings | How the Scientific and Religious Interpretations of the World Differ | 1916 | Morrison-Reed, Mark D. | After Running Through the Thistles: the Hard Part Begins | 2000
| Muir, Fredric J.
Responses
| From iChurch to Beloved Community:
Ecclesiology and Justice
| 2012
| Navias, Eugene B.
| Parish Ministry and Pedagogy: 1823-1983
A Past and Future Look at Religious Education | 1983
| Nelson, Roberta M. | Spiritual Teaching | 2002 | Osgood, Samuel
| The Practical Study of the Soul by our Ministers: Or, Pastoral Psychology | 1857
| Owen-Towle, Carolyn
Owen-Towle, Thomas | Lessons From Our Bishop /
Lessons From the Heart | 1999
1999 | Palfrey, John Gorham | The duty of ministers to interest themselves in providing a further supply of candidates for the ministry | 1832 | Patton, Kenneth L. | Plenitude of Being | 1965 | Parker, Nathan | On the Duties of the Church as Distinct from the Congregation... | 1824 | Payne, Thomas | Koheleth Headache | 1995 | Peabody, Andrew Preston | The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity | 1861 | Peabody, Ephraim | Summary: The Relation of Christianity and the Christian Ministry to the Secular Activity of the Times | 1855 | Peabody, Francis Greenwood | The Character of Jesus Christ | 1902 | Pennington. Leslie T. | Liberalism in the Encounter Between Living World Religions | 1960 | Peterman, Sidney A. | Ministry as Art Form | 1990 | Phillips, Roy D. | Active Religion’s Passive Voice | 1985 | Pickett, O. Eugene | 25 Beacon Street Revisited | 1987 | Pierpont, John | Summary: Social Reform | 1851 | Pope-Lance, Deborah J.
| Whence We Come and How, and Whither
| 2011
| Raible, Peter S. | Images of Protestant Clergy in American Novels | 1978 | Rankin, David O. | A Silent Witness to Evil | 1981 | | Rasor, Paul | Ironic Provincialism | 2009 Response | Reynolds, Grindell | The New Religion | 1879 | Robinson, Charles | Alleged Defects of Unitarian Preaching | 1844 | | Robinson, Christine | Imagineering Soul
| 2008Response | | Ripley, Ezra | Changes in Religious Opinion and the Character of Preaching in New England during the last Fifty Years | 1830 | | Savage, Minot J. | What O’Clock Is It In Religion? | 1889 |
Sawyer, Ken | "It's the Minister: The Mystery and Magic of the Role" | 2007 | Schacht, Robert H. Jr.
| "The Greatest Soul in Christendom”
and His Stand on Free Religion | 1949
| Schulman, J. Frank | The New Pietism | 1979 | Scholefield, Harry B. | Psychoanalysis and the Parish Ministry | 1962 | Schulz, William F. | What Torture’s Taught Me | 2006 | Scovel, Carl | Beyond Spirituality | 1994 | Sewell, Edmund Q.
| Summary: The Religious Aspects of the Community, and the Duty of Unitarian clergymen in regard to them | 1843
| Silliman, Vincent B. | Hymnbook Reminiscences and Reflections | 1977 | Smith, Joyce Harkleroad | Minding Our P's, Q's, and X's | 1988 | Southworth, Franklin C. | Is There Need Of A Revolution In The Theological Curriculum? | 1923 | Spencer, Anna Garlin | Are We Outgrowing the Need for a Church? | 1929 | Spoerl, Dorothy T. | The Church: Salient or Subordinate? | 1964 | Stearns, Oliver | The Written Word and the Christian Consciousness | 1856 | Stephen, Charles | Where Has Time Brought Us? | 1973 | Sutherland, Malcolm R., Jr. | Motivation and the Ministry (abridged) | 1957 | Thayer, George Augustus | Christianity in the Process of Evolution | 1890 | Thayer, Nathaniel | The Modes of Exerting Religious Influence at the Present Day | 1831 | Trapp, Jacob | Democracy as a Modern Religion | 1942 | Tuckerman, Joseph | The Difficulties of the Christian Ministry at the Present Period | 1822 | Vogt, Von Ogden | The Church and the Academy | 1937 | Walker, James | Summary: Real and Alleged Defects of the Preaching of Unitarian Ministers | 1836 | Walker-Riggs, Judith A. | On Issues Affecting Parish Ministry | 1997 | Ware, Henry Jr.
| The Best Means of Bringing our Lay Brethren to be More Useful in the Maintenance of Religious Institutions | 1835 | Ware, Henry Sr. | Duty of Unitarians with Respect to Christianity in India | 1826 | Westwood, Horace | The Underlying Significance of the Fundamental Changes in the Religion of Our Times | 1927 | Wilbur, Earl Morse | The Meaning and Lessons of Unitarian History | 1920 | Williams, David Rhys | Psychological Approach to the Concept of the Deity | 1955 | Wilson, Edwin H. | Liberal Religion’s Unfinished Business | 1972 | Wolf, John | Religion, The Church, and Our Mission in the World | 1986 | Zoerheide, Robert | America’s Fourth Faith | 1961 |
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