Thomas Emlyn

Thomas Emlyn (born May 27, 1663, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1741, London) was an English Presbyterian minister and writer who first publicly adopted the name Unitarian to designate a liberal, rational approach to God as a single person (as opposed to Christian belief in the Trinity). Emlyn began preaching before he was 20. He served as a private chaplain to two aristocratic households in England and Ireland (1683–90) and in 1690 became pastor of...