NEW DIMENSIONS OF UNITARIANISM
In a 1956 sermon on the "New Dimensions of Unitarianism," the Rev. Dr. Robert Lee Zoerheide offered these and other thoughts:
"... in religion, as in everything else, each one of us should be free to seek the truth without being hampered by official requirements and traditional restrictions ..."
"Unless religion develops character in men and women, it seems to us to be something less than religion ..."
" Unitarianism is an assurance that, in our religion, revelation is not sealed."
"Men and women no longer see nature as something distinct from themselves."
"How foolish it would be to feel that the story of religion had been written in one book and sealed by one age or, that once and for all in one person, the entire potential and range of human nature had been revealed."
"... it will be necessary to part company with the hallowed notion of a church being religious on the condition that its religiousness can come but from one person, one tradition, one scripture, or one locality."
"Some group must help to show the fiercely divided religious world its common ground of faith."
"Faith, like education, should be helped rather than hurt, by the new dimensions of experience."
"The trouble with the religious world is that the superstitious and the ignorant are cocksure, and the intelligent and the free are full of doubt."
"The brave new world is dismayingly timid in religion; it clings uneasily to the past."
"We will welcome the displaced religious persons of our time: the refugees from mixed marriage, the unwanted free-thinkers from orthodoxies, the harried ones who insist against dogma that they must work out their own beliefs ..."
"We will have a faith forever shared and forever our own."
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