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Theodore Parker was our Savonarola, an excellent scholar, in frank and affectionate communication with the best minds of his day, yet the tribune of the people, and the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind. He was no artist.
Theodore Parker (1810-1860) graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836 and was ordained to the West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Unitarian Church in 1837. He played a pivotal role in moving Unitarianism away from a Bible-centered faith, and in 1841, when he gave an ordination sermon entitled "A Discourse on the Transient and Permanent in Christianity," he emerged as a major figure in the ...
The papers of Theodore Parker, Unitarian clergyman, theologian, author, and abolitionist, were purchased by the Library of Congress, 1918-1982. Processing History. The papers of Theodore Parker were processed in 1965 and revised and expanded in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2009 by David Mathisen.
In Theodore Parker, we find another religious figure, not unlike Channing, who played a crucial role in the development of a number of the main ideas of his own time. It's clear that Parker was one of the most practical and also one of the most socially active of the transcendentalist group in causes that ranged from the reform of parish ministry to a whole series of widespread social concerns.
American Unitarian clergyman and social reformer Theodore Parker was active in the antislavery movement. He repudiated much traditional Christian doctrine, putting in its place an intuitive knowledge of God derived from man’s experience of nature and insight into his own mind. Parker’s views often followed those of the Transcendentalists.
This poster, which was created and disseminated by abolitionist Theodore Parker, warns black people in Boston to beware of watchmen and police officers, who were legally allowed to act as kidnappers due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This text is part of the Teaching Hard History Text Library and aligns with Key Concepts 5 and 6.
The Theodore Edson Parker Foundation was established in 1944 in Lowell, Massachusetts, under a will that reflected the founder’s interest in a wide range of community needs including children, disadvantaged young women, the elderly, refugees and immigrants. Since then, trustees have expanded our priorities to many other needs of the residents ...
