The Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) is a member church of the Unitarian Universalist Association providing denominational services to persons unable to attend a physical congregation because of distance or mobility. Many of these are Unitarian Universalists in other countries, members of the military, or non-mobile elderly. CLF communicates with its 3072 adult and 773 youth members through mail, e-mail, and its website. Among the members of CLF are also 180 ordained ministers who use CLF as their "own" church while serving another. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination formed by the merger in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. ...
CLF was created in 1944 by the American Unitarian Association, envisioned as a "church by mail," providing all the services of an actual church. Today, the minister of the Church of the Larger Fellowship is the Rev. Jane Ranney Rzepka. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious denomination formed by the merger in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church in America. ...
It is a common habit to stop the study of the early Church at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
As all the more important doctrines of the Church (except that of the Canon and the inspiration of Scripture) may be proved, or at least illustrated, from Scripture, the widest office of tradition is the interpretation of Scripture, and the authority of the Fathers is here of very great importance.
The Eastern Church had always possessed a traditional belief in Roman tradition and in the duty of recourse to the See of Peter; the Arians expressed it when they wrote to Pope Julius to deprecate interference -- Rome, they said, was "the metropolis of the faith from the beginning".
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