Our Liberal Movement in Theology Author:Joseph Henry Allen Subtitle: Chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England, Being a Closing Course of Lectures Given in the Harvard Divinity School General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Roberts Subjects: Unitarianism History / General Literary Criticism / American / Gene... more »ral Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Theology Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: V. THEODOEE PAEKER. THE names of Channing and Parker stand for very different if not hostile types of religious feeling and belief. But they are constantly mentioned together as representative names. Eight or wrong, Unitarianism is everywhere held responsible for them both. One as distinctly recalls the later as the other does the earlier phase of the movement we are attempting to trace. I have hinted already at the attitude of the theologian. I should like, if I may, to bring you into a little nearer acquaintance with the "o man. Theodore Parker's biography gives us glimpses of a childhood and youth not greatly different from that of many an energetic and studious country boy in New England. Being the youngest of eleven children, and five years younger than the tenth, it is likely that he had more than his share of his parents' companionship and care. How tenderly and piously his conscience was instructed by his mother, he has narrated himself in the story of the "little spotted tortoise;" and he told me once how his father, when he was eight years old, made him give his childish analysis of Plutarch's Cicero, before allowing him to read another of the Lives. In the charming story of EARL...« less