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| Categories | Christian journal |
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| Founded | 1813 |
| Final issue | 1869 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Boston |
The Christian Examiner was an American periodical published between 1813 and 1869.
| | |
| Categories | Christian journal |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1813 |
| Final issue | 1869 |
| Country | USA |
| Based in | Boston |
The Christian Examiner was an American periodical published between 1813 and 1869.
Founded in 1813 as The Christian Disciple, it was purchased in 1814 by Nathan Hale. His son Edward Everett Hale later oversaw publication. [1] [2] [3] Ralph Waldo Emerson's first printed work, "Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages," signed "H.O.N.," was published in The Christian Disciple in 1822. [4]
Through the years, editors included: William Ellery Channing; Noah Worcester; Henry Ware Jr.; John Gorham Palfrey; Francis Jenks, and others. An important journal of liberal Christianity, it was influential in the Unitarian and Transcendentalist movements. [5] It ceased publication in 1869 when it was subsumed by a new Unitarian periodical edited by Edward Everett Hale and called Old and New. [2]
The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic dialect and accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional British American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Rees, Welsh Nonconformist divine, was a Unitarian minister and scholar.
Alexander Hill Everett was an American diplomat, politician, and Boston man of letters. Everett held diplomatic posts in the Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and China. His translations of European literature, published in the North American Review, were influential for the Transcendentalism movement.
John Gorham Palfrey was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity School, and he later became involved in politics as a State Representative and U.S. Congressman.
Thomas Rennell (1787–1824) was an English theologian and author.
Unitarianism, as a Christian denominational family of churches, was first defined in Poland-Lithuania and Transylvania in the late 16th century. It was then further developed in England and America until the early 19th century, although theological ancestors are to be found as far back as the early days of Christianity. It matured and reached its classical form in the middle 19th century. Later historical development has been diverse in different countries.
Joseph Nightingale was a prolific English writer and preacher. He was particularly noted for his topographic writing and his interest in shorthand.
Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Nathan Hale was an American journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature.
Robert Aspland was an English Unitarian minister, editor and activist. To be distinguished from his son Robert Brook Aspland (1805-1869).
The Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded "to promote and direct popular education by lectures and other means." Modelled after the recently formed Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in London, the Boston group's officers included Daniel Webster, Nathan Hale, Jacob Bigelow, William Ellery Channing, Edward Everett, Nathaniel L. Frothingham, and Abbott Lawrence. The society published the American Library of Useful Knowledge, a series of scholarly works by British and American authors. Public lectures on a variety of topics were held at Boston's Masonic Temple, and other venues.
Noah Worcester was a Unitarian clergyman and a seminal figure in the history of American pacifism.
John Jones LL.D. was a Welsh Unitarian minister, critic, tutor and lexicographer.
George Edward Ellis was a Unitarian clergyman and historian.
John Gooch Robberds (1789–1854) was an English Unitarian minister in Manchester.
Thomas Sadler (1822–1891) was an English Unitarian minister and writer.
John James Tayler (1797–1869) was an English Unitarian Minister.
William Rounseville Alger was an American Unitarian minister, author, poet, hymnist, editor, and abolitionist. He also served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
