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 Wroclaw, 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 Laski: 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.