Unitarian vs Transcendentalism - What's the difference?
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A Christian who does not believe in the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.
A follower of Unitarian Universalism; or a member of a Unitarian Universalist Church in North America who adhered to, or identifies with, the Unitarian part of that church prior to consolidation in 1961.
(rare) A Muslim, Jew or other kind of monotheist who is not a Christian.
A member of a certain political movement, especially the Unitarios'' of nineteenth century Argentina (known as the ''Unitarian Party in English).
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.