Francis Greenwood Peabody

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

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

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

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 [1], 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. (1963). "Francis Greenwood Peabody: Conservative Social Reformer". The New England Quarterly. 36 (3): 320–337. doi:10.2307/364060. ISSN 1937-2213. JSTOR 364060.
• 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.
• Engs, Ruth Clifford (2003). The Progressive Era's Health Reform Movement: A Historical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 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. doi:10.1017/s0017816000025918. ISSN 1475-4517. JSTOR 1508743. S2CID 164103383.
• Morgan, Hani (2005). "Peabody, Francis Greenwood". In Shook, John R. (ed.). The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Vol. 3. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 1886–1888. ISBN 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. doi:10.2307/3168417. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3168417. S2CID 154191803. Retrieved 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.
• Works by Francis Greenwood Peabody at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Francis Greenwood Peabody at the Internet Archive
• Works by Francis Greenwood Peabody at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Francis Greenwood Peabody at Find a Grave