Британская и иностранная унитарная ассоциация
| Аббревиатура | BFUA; Унитарии |
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| Формация | 26 мая 1825 г. как объединение Унитарного книжного общества литературы, Унитарного фонда миссионерской работы и Унитарной ассоциации гражданских прав |
| Растворяется | 1928, став частью Генеральной Ассамблеи унитарных и свободных христианских церквей |
| Тип | Религиозная организация |
| Штаб -квартира | Лондон , Великобритания |
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Британская и иностранная унитарная ассоциация была основным унитарным органом в Великобритании с 1825 года. Унитарная ассоциация гражданских прав (1818 или 1819). Его офисы были разделены в Ассоциации воскресной школы на Эссекс -стрит, на месте первой унитарной церкви Англии. В 1928 году BFUA стал частью Генеральной Ассамблеи Унитарных и Свободных Христианских Церквей , все еще была зонтичной организацией для британского унитаризма, которая имеет свою штаб -квартиру Эссекс -Холл , в том же месте в центре Лондона .
Даты
[ редактировать ]The British and Foreign Unitarian Association was founded on 26 May 1825, at a meeting chaired by Thomas Gibson, father of Thomas Field Gibson.[1] This was the same day as the American Unitarian Association was formed. (The AUA is one of two bodies that merged in 1961 to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.) The History of Essex Hall, written in 1959 by Mortimer Rowe, the Secretary (i.e. chief executive) of the General Assembly for its first twenty years, claims this was entirely coincidental.[2][3]
Publishing
[edit]Under the impetus of Theophilus Lindsey, the first minister of the Essex Street Chapel, and his colleague John Disney, in 1791 the "first organized denominational Unitarian society" was formed, with the cumbersome name of The Unitarian Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue by the Distribution of Books.[4]
The earliest notable publication was Thomas Belsham's The New Testament in an Improved Version Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's New Translation (1808), which was continued by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. At the end of 1826 the Association acquired the Monthly Repository magazine, formerly edited by Robert Aspland. The Association contracted the French historian Gaston Bonet-Maury to write a history of French radical Protestantism.
In March 1876 Robert Spears resigned from the Association in objection to proposals to publish the works of Theodore Parker. Spears started the Christian Life as a rival magazine to the London Inquirer, becoming the voice of conservative late Biblical Unitarianism with Samuel Sharpe, till the two publications were merged in July 1929, and ran for a short time as The Inquirer and Christian Life. Another magazine, the Unitarian Herald, ran from 1861 to 1889.
Mission work
[edit]The Unitarian Fund "for the Promotion of Unitarianism by means of Popular Preaching" was founded in 1806, largely by laypeople. It gave money to congregations that needed it[5] and employed Richard Wright as an itinerant missionary. Foreign Secretaries of the Association included Sir John Bowring, till 1832, then Edward Tagart.
Civil rights
[edit]It took about 150 years from the Great Ejection of 1662 to the passage of the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813, which granted toleration for Unitarian worship; the so-called Act of Toleration 1689 had only worked to the favour of those Protestant dissenters who accepted the Trinity.[6] This victory for Unitarians—largely pushed forward in Parliament by William Smith, and thus known sometimes under his name, or as the Unitarian Relief Act (Trinity Act) or The Unitarian Toleration Bill[7]—did not grant them full civil rights while the oppressive Corporation Act and Test Act remained. The Association for the Protection of the Civil Rights of Unitarians was established in 1819.[8]
People associated with it
[edit]Presidents and chairmen of annual meeting
[edit]- 1829 Thomas Gibson, father of Thomas Field Gibson (also 1844 and 1845)
- John Ashton Yates, also 1856[9]
- 1850 Thomas Field Gibson
- 1869–70 Samuel Sharpe
- 1898-99 Herford Brook (1830–1903)
- 1918 Richard Durning Holt[10]
- 1921 Charles Sydney Jones
Secretaries
[edit]- 1834 James Yates (1789–1871)
- 1835-1842 Robert Aspland
- 1842-1858 Edward Tagart (1804–1858)
- 1859-1868 Robert Brook Aspland, son of Robert Aspland
- 1869-1876 Robert Spears
- 1892-1921 William Copeland Bowie (1855–1936)
Notable members
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Thomas Gibson & Thomas Field Gibson". Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ (Rowe 1959, chpt. 3)
- ^ "By a happy coincidence, in those days of slow posts, no transatlantic telegraph, telephone or wireless, our American cousins, in complete ignorance as to the details of what was afoot, though moving towards a similar goal, founded the American Unitarian Association on precisely the same day - May 26, 1825."
- ^ (Rowe 1959, chpt. 3)
- ^ (Rowe 1959, chpt. 3)
- ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 653.
- ^ Maclear J.F. Church and state in the modern age: a documentary history 1995
- ^ (Rowe 1959, chpt. 3)
- ^ Bebbington, D. W. (April 2009). "Unitarian Members of Parliament in the Nineteenth Century — A Catalogue" (PDF). Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society. 24 (3): 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-29. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
- ^ Read, J. Gordon (2004). "Holt, Alfred (1829–1911), engineer and shipowner". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2017-10-11. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Bibliography
[edit]- Роу, Мортимер (1959), История Эссекс-Холл , Линдси Пресс, архивирована из оригинала 2012-01-16
Внешние ссылки
[ редактировать ]Дальнейшее чтение
[ редактировать ]- Свобода и религия , доктор Ш. Меллон. Столетняя история BFUA, опубликованная в 1925 году.
