Unitarianism

The words "open–minded and individualistic approach to religion" appear to come from the BBC website, where we learn that "Unitarianism ... gives scope for a very wide range of beliefs and doubts ... Everyone is free to search for meaning in life in a responsible way and to reach their own conclusions."

Wikipedia explains that Unitarians regard the Christian God as one being, and Jesus as a saviour inspired by God – but not as God incarnate. In short, they don't believe in the Holy Trinity.

Unitarianism as a movement began in Poland in the mid–sixteenth century. The word was first used in English around 100 years later, initially to describe the Polish movement. It began to become a formal denomination in 1774, when Theophilus Lindsey (born in 1723 in Middlewich, Cheshire) organised meetings with the polymath Joseph Priestley (better known to quizzers as the discoverer of oxygen, and less so as the author of a seminal work on English grammar), at Essex Street Church in London.

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