In response to your great and very fascinating post, I would like to play Devil’s advocate for a second. You say Unitarians are non-creedal which I see to be true, however, I see that on the most part Unitarians are one in voice in saying that God is one and that there is no trinity and also that Jesus was not Divine. Is this denial not a creed in its own way?
I don’t mean to offend, its merely that this is an issue that I am looking upon at the moment with an open and honest heart. Afterall, I understand Christ’s Divineness as Logos which is God empyting into Jesus. I might add that this is something that happens to all of us merely in the acknowledgement of that 2ground of being” as Tillich calls it. Although Jesus was the ultimately example as the Buddha may well have been. The downside is that all we have about these two men is what other people have said about them.
Hi Matt, I think you have a point here - Classical Unitarianism did insist on One God and oppose the Trinity, and so did have a de facto creed. However, it’s worth noting that within Unitarianism there has been a ‘Free Christian’ element, envisioned primarily by James Martineau but followed also by William Ellery Channing and co of New England, which called passionately for a non-creedal Christianity and argued Unitarianism was at risk of being ‘just another doxy’.