Unitarian Universalism (Revised): A Faith of Conscience, Justice and Earth by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
Unitarian Universalism: A Faith of Conscience, Justice, and Earth Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. I. A Radical Heritage: The Faith of Heretics and Prophets Unitarian Universalism (UU) is the anti-authoritarian faith—born from heretics, reformers, and free spirits who challenged orthodoxy and insisted that conscience, not creed, is the measure of truth. It stands in a lineage of radical dissent stretching back centuries: from Michael Servetus, executed in 1553 for questioning the Trinity, to the early Unitarians who championed reason over revelation, to the Universalists who dared to proclaim that a loving God would never condemn anyone to eternal damnation. The theological DNA of UU is revolutionary. It holds that no single tradition has a monopoly on truth, that revelation is continuous and evolving, and that moral insight deepens as humanity matures. Its saints are rebels: Ralph Waldo Emerson, who walked away from his Unitarian pulpit to preach self-reliance and the divinit...