Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World

Kazimierz Bem is Pastor of First Church in Marlborough (UCC), USA and a senior lecturer in Church History at the Evangelical School of Theology in Wrocław, Poland.Bruce Gordon is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, USA.

• PART I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Porous Boundaries of Dissent.- PART II. Antitrinitarianism and its influence in Italy and Poland.- Chapter 2. Italian Antitrinitarianism and the Legitimacy of Dissent.- Chapter 3. Scripture, Piety, and Christian community in the thought of the Polish Brethren.- Chapter 4. Religiosity in the Ethos of Polish Brethren in the Light of Funeral and Wedding Speeches from the Seventeenth Century.- Chapter 5. True heirs of Jan Łaski: Polish Brethren church discipline in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and during their exile in Transylvania.- PART III. Transylvanian Unitarianism.- Chapter 6. The Late Confessionalization of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church and the Polish Brethren.- Chapter 7. Introduction of the Transylvanian Disciplina Eccelsiastica of 1626.- Chapter 8. Disciplina Eccelsiastica of 1626.- Chapter 9. The Term, Development, Purpose, and Practice of Church or Canonical Visitation Unitarians in Háromszék in the 17th Century Between Conventional Rhetoric and Reality.- Chapter 10. Some Aspects of the Hungarian Unitarian Liturgy in the 16th–18th Centuries.- Chapter 11. Engagement and Divorce Cases before the Unitarian Consistory in Seventeenth-century Transylvania. Frameworks in Church Law and the Doctrine of Marriage.- PART IV. England, Ireland, and New England.- Chapter 12. The Historical Critique of Heresiology in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of John Milton’s Arianism.- Chapter 13. Authority, reason, and anti-trinitarianism: John Abernethy and the competing pressures within Irish Presbyterianism in the early eighteenth century.- Chapter 14. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer and its Adaptation in Eighteenth Century Rational Dissent.- Chapter 15. New England Congregationalists and Unitarianism in late 18th century/early 19th century.