RVUUF Adult Programs will show a DVD on early liberal thought, at noon on Sunday, Jan. 17 In Emerson House. “In the Beginning” is the first part in a UU history film series, “Long Strange Trip, A Journey Through Two Thousand Years of Unitarian Universalist History.”

The film examines the early roots of liberal religious thought. It chronicles the isolated declarations of Universal Salvation in the early years of the Christian era.

The video traces the early anti-trinitarians such as the monk Arius and his role in the Council of Nicaea. It discusses pre-Reformation heretics such as Katherine Vogel, John Wycliffe, and Jan Hus. It concludes with the life and work of Michael Servetus. It makes the case that there were two Reformations going on in the 16th century — a theologically conservative one catalyzed by Martin Luther and a liberal one based largely on the works of Servetus.