tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post2032152090061881238..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Collapsing Unitarianism (Plus)Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-39731747387176421912009-03-20T04:24:00.000+01:002009-03-20T04:24:00.000+01:00Unitarianism in the US is 'growing' from 220,000 t...Unitarianism in the US is 'growing' from 220,000 to about 250,000 since the Kennedy administration. That is to say, it's about a quarter of a million people in a country of 305 million.<BR/> If the upper middle classes weren't so grossly over represented in its ranks, it would have about the same national significance as the Polish National Catholics.<BR/> You're looking at your own future.Fred Preusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06438368833909384043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-18950262353495590682009-03-19T13:59:00.000+01:002009-03-19T13:59:00.000+01:00Very interesting comment, and such development is ...Very interesting comment, and such development is not out of keeping with developments towards Unitarianism in the past. In such cases they formed new congregations (or revived old shells): where ministers left with people or attracted new people or both. Historically they set up either Puritan trinitarian or later Unitarian congregations.<BR/><BR/>Should the Anglican Church (or other denomination) ever get to a point where it starts disciplining those it suspects of being beyond the pale, say with an evangelical takeover, then there would be minister-led developments. They would not necessarily sign up to the General Assembly, but might find such useful over time.<BR/><BR/>Unitarianism would have to become a little bit more symbolic, more liturgical: some aspects would seem unusual, but that's what happens with new developments.<BR/><BR/>There is a 'refugee' liberal congregation in the Norfolk area I believe that happily goes along on its own, centred around its minister.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-30482495031774639872009-03-19T11:16:00.000+01:002009-03-19T11:16:00.000+01:00Where there has been revival of Unitarian congrega...Where there has been revival of Unitarian congregations it has often been enabled by 'refugee' ministers from other denominations taking on a church ; I notice this has also been the case in Africa where there has been remarkable Unitarian growth in some countries led by ministers whose only knowledge of Unitarianism has come through the Internet.Maybe 'Unitarianism, but not as we know it ,Jim' but growing to a point where it could eclipse British Unitarianism in the not too distant future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com