tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post6645395502984177802..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Jared Sparks on British UnitariansBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-90380581026346348772008-08-23T10:49:00.000-06:002008-08-23T10:49:00.000-06:00Well stated John. I'll take issue with you on but...Well stated John. I'll take issue with you on but one point: Identifying John Marshall as a Unitarian. <BR/><BR/>As best I recollect, Marshall was actively involved in his Episcopal congregation. While it's certainly possible that he personally rejected the doctrine of the Trinity, we have nothing from his own pen to indicate this. If I'm not mistaken, the evidence that Marshall was secretly a Unitarian is limited to a second-had account that he overcame longstanding doubts to embrace orthodoxy on his deathbed. <BR/><BR/>Garrison Keillor has charged Unitarian Universalists with "<A HREF="http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2005/10/" REL="nofollow">relentless evangelizing among the dead.</A>" With tongue in cheek, no doubt, Keillor writes that "<A HREF="http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2005/10/" REL="nofollow">the UUs are ransacking the past for people who might have been thinking along UU lines and claiming them as members in good standing. Next thing you know they'll be claiming Elvis.</A>" <BR/><BR/>As a committed and active Unitarian Universalist myself, I regret to say that the evidence regarding John Marshall appears too flimsy for me to claim him as a Unitarian. <BR/><BR/>As for Elvis . . .Eric Alan Isaacsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14144268111747323445noreply@blogger.com