In Church Today

Entering the 21st century, can Unitarianism develop a humanism that simultaneously honours both the spiritual and the secular? We are challenged by our immediate history: for much of the 20th century, rationality and spirituality were contrasted and opposed. However, it need not necessarily be so. Looking back to our intellectual roots in the great thinkers of the 20th century, from Marx and Freud to John Muir and Thomas Mann, we can discern a critical weaving together of the empirical rationality of the 18th century Enlightenment with the intuitive spirituality of 19th century Romanticism. A modernism that calls upon all of the elements of our intellectual and spiritual heritage may be more than a Romantic dream. Fritz is a member of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

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