Parker, Theodore
Parker, Theodore( 1810–60),born at Lexington, Mass., early showed a precocious ability at scholarship, although poverty limited his schooling. From the age of 17 until he was 21, he taught at district schools, and then, after passing the Harvard entrance examination, being too poor to enroll, received special credit and graduated from the Divinity School (1836). He became a Unitarian clergyman in a Boston suburb (1837). Increasingly dependent upon the direct intuition of an Absolute Being, he turned away from the belief in miraculous revelation. In agreement with such liberal thinkers as Channing, Emerson, Alcott, Ripley, and Wendell Phillips, who were his friends, he developed his intuitive religious beliefs into a system, expressed in The … Question Between Mr. Andrews Norton and His Alumni… (1839), written under the pseudonym Levi Blodgett, and a sermon on The Transient and Permanent in Christianity (1841). Having become...
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