Francis Greenwood Peabody

Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University.[8]

The Reverend Francis Greenwood Peabody
Born	(1847-12-04)December 4, 1847 Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died	December 28, 1936(1936-12-28) (aged 89) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Spouse(s)	Cora Weld ​ ( m. 1872; died 1914) [1][2]
Parent(s)	Ephraim Peabody[3] Mary Jane Derby Peabody[4]
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Unitarian)
Ordained	1874
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Influences	Otto Pfleiderer[5] August Tholuck[5]
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Christian ethics[6]
School or tradition	Social Gospel[7]
Institutions	Harvard University

Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts.[9] He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a junior, "he was first baseman in the first Harvard nine to play against Yale." He then went to the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1872 with the degrees of AM and STB.[2]

Peabody died in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on December 28, 1936.[10]

Works

• Jesus Christ and the Christian Character by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 0-559-60371-1
• The Christian Life in the Modern World by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-61593-0
• The Religious Education of an American Citizen by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-58699-X
• Organized Labor and Capital: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1904 , with Washington Gladden, Talcott Williams, and George Hodges
• Afternoons in the College Chapel by Francis Greenwood Peabody 1898

References

Footnotes

1. Wunderlich, Clifford. "Francis Greenwood Peabody". Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the 20th Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
2. "Peabody, Francis Greenwood (1847-1936)". Harvard Square Library. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
3. Bernstein 1963, p. 321; Morgan 2005, p. 1886.
4. Morgan 2005, p. 1886.
5. Herbst 1961, p. 49.
6. Cumming Long 1990.
7. Morgan 2005, p. 1887.
8. Herbst 1961.
9. Engs 2003, p. 247; Herbst 1961, p. 46.
10. Engs 2003, p. 248; Herbst 1961, p. 46.

Bibliography

Bernstein, Barton J. (1963). "Francis Greenwood Peabody: Conservative Social Reformer". The New England Quarterly. 36 (3): 320–337. doi:10.2307/364060. ISSN 1937-2213.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Cumming Long, Grace (1990). "The Ethics of Francis Greenwood Peabody: A Century of Christian Social Ethics". Journal of Religious Ethics. 18 (1): 55–73. ISSN 1467-9795. JSTOR 40017828.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Engs, Ruth Clifford (2003). The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement: A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-97932-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Herbst, Jurgen (1961). "Francis Greenwood Peabody: Harvard's Theologian of the Social Gospel". The Harvard Theological Review. 54 (1): 45–69. doi:10.1017/s0017816000025918. ISSN 1475-4517. JSTOR 1508743.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Morgan, Hani (2005). "Peabody, Francis Greenwood". In Shook, John R. (ed.). The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. 3. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 1886–1888. ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

Dorn, Jacob H. Dorn (1993). "The Social Gospel and Socialism: A Comparison of the Thought of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch". Church History. 62 (1): 82–100. doi:10.2307/3168417. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3168417. Retrieved May 22, 2019.

External links

• Addresses and lectures given by Francis Greenwood Peabody are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Works by Francis Greenwood Peabody at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Francis Greenwood Peabody at Internet Archive
• Francis Greenwood Peabody at Find a Grave

Academic offices
Preceded by Lyman Abbott	Lyman Beecher Lecturer 1904	Succeeded by Charles Reynolds Brown
Preceded by L. P. Jacks	Hibbert Lecturer 1925	Succeeded by