Skinner, Clarence Russell, 1881-1949

Clarence Russell Skinner ( 1881-1949 ) was a graduate of St. Lawrence University and was ordained in 1906 . He served parishes in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Mt. Vernon, New York . In 1914, he became Professor of Applied Christianity at the Crane Theological School of Tufts University . In 1915, he published The Social Implications of Universalism. Increasingly disillusioned with Universalism, he founded the all-inclusive, nondenominational Community Church of Boston in 1920 . From 1933 until his retirement in 1945, he served as dean of the Crane Theological School at Tufts University . His published works include Liberalism Faces the Future ( 1937 ), Human Nature and the Nature of Evil ( 1939 ) and A Religion for Greatness ( 1945 ).

From the guide to the Skinner, Clarence Russell, 1881-1949. Papers, 1906-1970., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)