Octavius Brooks Frothingham: 5 books

3 works of Octavius Brooks Frothingham American clergyman and author (1822-1895) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Octavius Brooks Frothingham. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Recollections and Impressions, 1822-1890 The Cradle of the Christ Transcendentalism in New England

Published in 1873, The Religion of Humanity takes a scientific approach to the study of theology. Evolving from Transcendentalism to Hegelianism to what Frothingham calls Rationalism, this radical 19th century view of religion was greatly influenced by Darwin’s theories of evolution.  

My father was, as I have said elsewhere, a clergyman in Boston, Massachusetts, a Unitarian minister to the First Church, standing in a long line of men, of whom the earliest was severely orthodox, while he abhorred orthodoxy. Yet he was ordained without hesitation, was more than acceptable to the best...

Transcendentalism was an important intellectual movement in America, influencing ideas and institutions, swaying politicians, inspiring philanthropists, and creating reformers. Frothingham’s history of transcendentalism relates how it shaped the country’s national mind and impacted its intellectual and moral character.

George Ripley (1802-1880) was a leading intellectual of his time. This 1882 biography by a fellow Unitarian minister follows him from his ministry, thorough the founding of the Utopian community of Brook Farm in Massachusetts, to his career as a journalist and national arbiter of taste during the Gilded Age.