Abstract
Abstract The chapter focuses on two Unitarian ministers, John Dietrich and William Sullivan, who were at the center of the Unitarian humanist-theist debates in the late 1920s. Sullivan had been a Catholic priest and wanted to keep Unitarianism focused on God, while John Dietrich began to preach a faith in humanity that rejected appeals to the divine. Dietrich’s side prevailed, but Unitarians managed to keep both positions alive in the denomination. The chapter also explores how in later years, Dietrich began to reconsider his earlier theology; by the end of his life, he had begun to believe he had been wrong, and that there was an order in the universe that could be described as “God.”
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