Works of James Freeman Clarke

After graduating from Harvard College in and Harvard Divinity School in and serving his first pastorate in Louisville , Kentucky, from to , Clarke established in the Church of the Disciples in Boston, where he was minister from to and from until his death. He was also professor of religion at Harvard — He worked closely with many of the significant persons of his day, and he printed original works by his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Western Messenger, a short-lived magazine he edited while at Louisville.

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A versatile reformer, Clarke opposed slavery and advocated changes in the civil service. In addition to editing such magazines as the Christian World —48 and the Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association —61 , Clarke published more than 1, articles and sermons and 32 books, including Ten Great Religions, 2 vol. We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind.

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Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. The Mystical Body of Christ.

The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Superstition In All Ages On Prayer and Contemplation.

Ancient Faiths and Modern: God-Idea of the Ancients. Ancient Mysteries And Modern Masonry.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Paganism Surviving in Christianity. Hippolyto Joseph da Costa. The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghos. Jesus, the Last Great Initiate. Did Jesus Live B. The Agony Of The Church Paganism and Christianity in Egypt. The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity. Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry. Eastern Religions and Western Thought. Copies of this magazine are now valued by collectors for containing the earliest printed poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson , a personal friend and a distant cousin.

Clarke published Fuller's first literary review—criticisms of recent biographies on George Crabbe and Hannah More. In , Clarke purchased the former site of Brook Farm , intending to start a new Utopian community there. After hearing the song " John Brown's Body ", he suggested that Mrs.

Howe write new lyrics; the result was " The Battle Hymn of the Republic ". Clarke was an advocate of human rights. Being a Boston Latin School alumnus, he served on a committee of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women which was greatly instrumental in establishing Girls' Latin School in Tempered and moderate in his views of life, he was a reformer and a conciliator and never carried a pistol as fellow preacher Theodore Parker did.

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He published few verses, but is regarded by some as a poet at heart. A diligent scholar, among the books by which he became well known is one called Ten Great Religions 2 vols, — James Freeman Clarke was one of the very first Americans to explore and write about Eastern religions. A portrait of Clarke painted by E. Billings hangs in the Boston Public Library. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A New American Life.