Prairie Group Readings

Required Reading:

The 2000-01 Minns Lectures
The Lay and Liberal Doctrine of the Church:
The Spirit and the Promise of Our Covenant

by Alice Blair Wesley

Lecture 1:  "Love Is the Doctrine of This Church"

Lecture 2:  "Thus Do We Covenant"

Lecture 3:  "How We Came to Forget the Covenant for a Long Time"

Lecture 4:  "The Theology and Anthropology of Our Liberal Covenant"

Lecture 5:  "Updating the Cambridge Platform"

Lecture 6:  "Toward a Covenanted Association of Congregations:
                On Patterns of Authentic Authority Among Free Churches"

Supplemental Reading:

  1. "Letter from the Executive Committee of the Western Unitarian Association dated May 17, 1887"
  2. "Unitarian Christianity: Some Significant Utterances, published by the Directors of the Western Unitarian Association 1886/7?"
  3. "An Open Letter to the Unitarians of the West, Western Unitarian Association, 1886"
  4. "The Western Unitarian Directory 1883-1884"
  5. "A Letter to the Churches of the Western Conference from the Board of Directors, July 1886"
  6. "Rev. William Channing Gannett: The Faith of Ethics and the Thought of God"
  7. "William Pease: William Channing Gannett, 2 Episodes"
  8. "The Issue in the West: Is Western Christianity Ready to Give Up Its Christian Character?"

 

 
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