Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
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Channing, William E. (William Ellery), 1780-1842
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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1840.
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Channing, William Ellery
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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. delivered January 25, 1835.
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Čanning, Vilʹjam Ėlleri 1780-1842
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Channing, Vilʹi︠a︡m Ėlleri 1780-1842
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Channing, William E.
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Channing, Vilʹi︠a︡m Ėlleri̇ 1780-1842
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W. E. C 1780-1842 (William Ellery Channing),
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Channing, William E. 1780-1842
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Channing, Vilʹi︠a︡m Ėlleri̇, 1780-1842
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Channing, Viliam Elleri, 1780-1842
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Čanning, Vilʹjam Ėlleri 1780-1842
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Channing, Ellery 1780-1842
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Channing, W. E. 1780-1842 (William Ellery),
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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the abolitionist movement, he penned The Duty of the Free States in 1842, which was a rebuttal to Daniel Webster's teachings concerning the national slave laws.
William Ellery Channing was born in Newport, Rhode Island, graduated from Harvard, and became minister of the Federal Street Church in 1803. An eloquent, logical, and emotional speaker, his reputation as a minister and thinker grew. During the Unitarian Controversy, he became the chief spokesman for the liberal religious movement , essentially ending the Puritan monopoly on New England ethics and thought, and his leadership and doctrines led to the development of the Unitarian Church. As a speaker, thinker, and writer, he also had a significant influence on the development of Transcendentalism.
Clergyman and abolitionist, of Boston, Mass.
Unitarian minister of Boston, Mass.
American theologian, author, Unitarian minister, Harvard graduate. Served Federal Street Church, Boston (1803-1842).
American clergyman.
William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Harvard Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the abolitionist movement, he penned The Duty of the Free States in 1842, which was a rebuttal to Daniel Webster's teachings concerning the national slave laws.
William Ellery Channing was born on April 7, 1780, in Newport, Rhode Island, and, following his father's death, was raised primarily by his grandfather, William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Channing graduated from Harvard in 1798 and, after spending time in Richmond, Virginia, became a vocal opponent of slavery. Upon his return north, Channing settled in Boston, where he turned the Federal Street Church into a leading institution in the Unitarian movement and helped establish both the American Unitarian Association and the Harvard Divinity School. Channing married Ruth Gibbs in 1814, and they had four children. He died on October 2, 1842.
Charles Babbage was a mathematician and inventor.
Channing was a Unitarian minister in Boston and the principal spokesman for the Unitarian movement in the United States.
Channing (Harvard, A.B., 1798) served as Fellow at Harvard.
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American Unitarian theologian.
William Ellery Channing received his A.B. from Harvard in 1798. He served as Fellow at Harvard, and was a Unitarian minister in Boston and the principal spokesman for the Unitarian movement in the United States.
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