Earl Morse Wilbur

Earl Morse Wilbur (Jericho, Vermont, April 26, 1866 – Berkeley, California, January 8, 1956) was an American Unitarian minister, educator, and historian.[1][2]

Wilbur was the first dean 1904-1910; then president 1911-1931; and until 1934, professor of homiletics and practical theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, Berkeley, California of the American Unitarian Association (AUA). His writings focused on the development of Unitarianism within European Christianity.

He graduated from University of Vermont and Harvard Divinity School.[3]

Works

• Wilbur, Earl Morse (1925). Our Unitarian Heritage: An Introduction To The History Of The Unitarian Movement. Boston: The Beacon Press.
• Wilbur, Earl Morse (1945). A History of Unitarianism, Vol. I (PDF) (1977 ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
• Wilbur, Earl Morse (1945). A History of Unitarianism, Vol. II (PDF) (1977 ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2017-11-26.[4][5]

References

1. Harvard Square Bio EARL MORSE WILBUR: HISTORIAN OF UNITARIANISM 1886-1956 by Henry Wilder Foote, Author of Three Centuries of American Hymnody. Unitarian Yearbook 1957-1958
2. Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography Alan Seaburg
3. https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/earl-morse-wilbur/
4. Review: THE COSTLY HERITAGE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM By Henry Wilder Foote A History of Unitarianism: Socinianism and Its Antecedents. By Earl Morse Wilbur. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. The Christian Register, August 1945
5. Review: TORTURE, BLOODSHED AND SUFFERING by Duncan Howlett The Christian Register, January 1953

External links

• The papers of Earl Morse Wilbur are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.