Editing Unitarianism (section)

===Biblical Unitarians===
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[[Biblical Unitarianism]] identifies the [[Christianity#Beliefs|Christian belief]] that the [[Bible]] teaches that God the Father is [[Monotheism|one singular being]], and that [[Jesus Christ]] is a distinct being, his son, but not divine.<ref name="Tuggy 2020">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Tuggy |first=Dale |date=Winter 2020 |title=Trinity – Unitariansm |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/unitarianism.html#18t21sCenUni |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-link=Edward N. Zalta |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |publisher=The Metaphysics Research Lab, [[Center for the Study of Language and Information]], [[Stanford University]] |issn=1095-5054 |oclc=643092515 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311130654/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/unitarianism.html |archive-date=11 March 2017 |access-date=9 August 2021 |quote=There are presently a number of small Christian groups calling themselves “biblical unitarians” (or: Christian monotheists or one God believers) to distinguish themselves from late 19th to 21st century Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists. Their arguments draw on early modern unitarian sources, while eschewing some of the idiosyncrasies of [[Socinianism|Socinus's theology]] and most of the extra revisions of the [[Joseph Priestley|Priestley]]-derived stream of unitarians. Like late 18th to early 19th century unitarians, they argue at length that trinitarianism has no biblical foundation, and is inconsistent with its clear teachings. They also reject trinitarianism as contradictory or unintelligible, as involving [[Idolatry in the Bible|idolatry]], and as having been, as it were, illegally imported from [[Platonic philosophy]] [...]. On some issues they draw support from recent [[Biblical studies|biblical scholarship]], for example, the point that talk of “generation” and “procession” in the [[Gospel of John]] doesn't support later claims about inter-trinitarian relations [...]. Although this literature points out real tensions within contemporary theology (between text-oriented commentators and systematic theologians) it is widely ignored in academic theology and philosophy, and its adherents are generally excluded from the institutions of [[mainstream Christianity]].}}</ref> [[Biblical Unitarianism#Denominations|A few denominations]] use this term to describe themselves, clarifying the distinction between them and those churches which, from the late 19th century, evolved into [[General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches|modern British Unitarianism]] and, primarily in the United States, [[Unitarian Universalism]].<ref name="Tuggy 2020"/> In 16th-century Italy, Biblical Unitarianism was powered by the ideas of the Non-trinitarian theologians [[Lelio Sozzini|Lelio]] and [[Fausto Sozzini]], founders of [[Socinianism]];<ref name="Mortimer 2010">{{cite book |last=Mortimer |first=Sarah |year=2010 |title=Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism |chapter=The Socinian Challenge to Protestant Christianity |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYeP_htzw14C&pg=PA13 |location=[[Cambridge]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |series=Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History |pages=13–38 |isbn=978-0-521-51704-1 |lccn=2010000384 |access-date=2021-08-09 |archive-date=2023-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928230522/https://books.google.com/books?id=fYeP_htzw14C&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> their doctrine was embraced and further developed by the [[Unitarian Church of Transylvania]] during the 16th and 17th centuries.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilbur |first=Earl Morse |author-link=Earl Morse Wilbur |year=1952 |orig-date=1945 |title=A History of Unitarianism: In Transylvania, England, and America |chapter=The Unitarian Church under Calvinist Princes: 1604–1691 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5U9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121 |location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |volume=2 |pages=121–122 |access-date=2021-08-09 |archive-date=2023-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928230522/https://books.google.com/books?id=G5U9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Today, it's represented by the churches associated with the [[Christian Church in Italy]].<ref>cf. {{cite web |url=http://www.chiesadifrosinone.it/cosa_crediamo.html |title=Christian Church in Italy beliefs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028161300/http://www.chiesadifrosinone.it/cosa_crediamo.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-28 }}</ref>