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Unitarian vs Transcendentalism - What's the difference?

unitarian | transcendentalism |

As nouns the difference between unitarian and transcendentalism

is that unitarian is one who denies the doctrine of the trinity, believing that god exists only in one person; a unipersonalist while transcendentalism is the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

As an adjective unitarian

is espousing a unitary view of something.

unitarian

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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).
  • Synonyms

    * Unitarian Universalist

    Antonyms

    * Trinitarian

    Derived terms

    * Unitarianism

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to Unitarianism
  • References

    transcendentalism

    English

    Noun

  • 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.