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Origin (US)
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Channing (1819)
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de Benneville (1741)
Murray (1770)
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Origin (organizational)
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Homegrown; within Congregational churches
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Spontaneous/Imported; drawing from all protestant churches
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Culture
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New England intelligensia; middle/upper class; urban
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Suburban ("near west"); working class; rural
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Manner
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Studied; analytical (Emerson: "corpse cold")
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Inspired
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Theology
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Covenantal; Christian unitarian; transcendental; humanist
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Creedal; Christian trinitarian; unitarian (later); pan-religious / humanist
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Growth
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slow; little or no outreach; peak 100K (1880's); same at merger
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rapid; missionaries; peak: ~600K (1840's); 36K at merger
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(Thomas Starr King)
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"too good to be damned"
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"God too good to damn them forever" JB 4/3/01
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