Francis Greenwood Peabody Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
Francis Greenwood Peabody
Birth Date:	4 December 1847
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse:	^[1]
Module:	Child: yes Religion: Christianity (Unitarian) Ordained: 1874
Module2:	Child: yes Alma Mater: Harvard University School Tradition: Social Gospel Discipline: Theology Sub Discipline: Christian ethics Workplaces: Harvard University

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

Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts. 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.

Works

• Jesus Christ and the Christian Character by Francis Greenwood Peabody
• The Christian Life in the Modern World by Francis Greenwood Peabody
• The Religious Education of an American Citizen by Francis Greenwood Peabody
• Organized Labor and Capital: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1904 https://archive.org/details/organizedlaborca00gladuoft, with Washington Gladden, Talcott Williams, and George Hodges
• Afternoons in the College Chapel by Francis Greenwood Peabody 1898

Translations

• Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life, by Karl Hilty (1903)

References

Bibliography

• Bernstein. Barton J.. Barton Bernstein. 1963. Francis Greenwood Peabody: Conservative Social Reformer. The New England Quarterly. 36. 3. 320–337. 10.2307/364060. 364060. 1937-2213.
• Cumming Long. Grace. 1990. The Ethics of Francis Greenwood Peabody: A Century of Christian Social Ethics. Journal of Religious Ethics. 18. 1. 55–73. 1467-9795. 40017828.
• Book: Engs , Ruth Clifford . Ruth C. Engs. 2003. The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement: A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut. Praeger Publishers. 978-0-275-97932-4.
• Herbst. Jurgen. 1961. Francis Greenwood Peabody: Harvard's Theologian of the Social Gospel. The Harvard Theological Review. 54. 1. 45–69. 10.1017/s0017816000025918. 1475-4517. 1508743. 164103383.
• Encyclopedia: Morgan. Hani. 2005. Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Shook. John R.. The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. 3. Bristol, England. Thoemmes Continuum. 1886–1888. 978-1-84371-037-0.

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. 10.2307/3168417. 0009-6407. 3168417. 154191803. May 22, 2019.

External links

• Addresses and lectures given by Francis Greenwood Peabody are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Notes and References

1. Book: Wunderlich, Clifford . Francis Greenwood Peabody . Harvard Divinity School at the Turn of the 20th Century . Cambridge, Massachusetts . Harvard University . May 23, 2019.
2. Web site: Peabody, Francis Greenwood (1847-1936) . Harvard Square Library . February 6, 2019.