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Francis Greenwood Peabody

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Francis Greenwood Peabody
Born(1847-12-04)December 4, 1847
DiedDecember 28, 1936(1936-12-28) (aged 89)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse
Cora Weld
(m. 1872; died 1914)
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Parents
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Unitarian)
Ordained1874
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-disciplineChristian ethics[7]
School or traditionSocial Gospel[6]
InstitutionsHarvard University

Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University.[8]

Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts.[9] He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a junior, "he was first baseman in the first Harvard nine to play against Yale." He then went to the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1872 with the degrees of AM and STB.[2]

Peabody died in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on December 28, 1936.[10]

Works

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  • Jesus Christ and the Christian Character by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 0-559-60371-1
  • The Christian Life in the Modern World by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-61593-0
  • The Religious Education of an American Citizen by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-58699-X
  • Organized Labor and Capital: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1904 [1], with Washington Gladden, Talcott Williams, and George Hodges
  • Afternoons in the College Chapel by Francis Greenwood Peabody 1898

Translations

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  • Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life, by Karl Hilty (1903)

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Wunderlich, Clifford. "Francis Greenwood Peabody". Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the 20th Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Peabody, Francis Greenwood (1847-1936)". Harvard Square Library. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Bernstein 1963, p. 321; Morgan 2005, p. 1886.
  4. ^ Morgan 2005, p. 1886.
  5. ^ a b Herbst 1961, p. 49.
  6. ^ Morgan 2005, p. 1887.
  7. ^ Cumming Long 1990.
  8. ^ Herbst 1961.
  9. ^ Engs 2003, p. 247; Herbst 1961, p. 46.
  10. ^ Engs 2003, p. 248; Herbst 1961, p. 46.

Bibliography

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Further reading

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Academic offices
Preceded by Lyman Beecher Lecturer
1904
Succeeded by
Preceded by Hibbert Lecturer
1925
Succeeded by