John locke government beliefs of christianity

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The unitarian movement which eventually became the American Unitarian Association and merged in mid-twentieth century with Universalism to become the Unitarian-Universalist Association is rooted in the liberal Protestantism of congregational churches in eighteenth century New England.

But if we trace the roots back further we come to the liberal wing of the Puritan movement in seventeenth century New England and England.

"Liberalism" is a word with many meanings.

John locke government beliefs of christianity

It is not often these days that we hear it associated in a positive way with religion. So it may be useful to distinguish religious liberalism from two other, more familiar kinds of liberalism. One kind of liberalism is the free-market, small government philosophy of Adam Smith, whose most recent incarnation is the "neoliberal" ideology