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Paul T. Burlin - Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform

A Life Well Lived

Av Paul T. Burlin

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This book offers a historical look at the life and theology of Charles Fletcher Dole. Dole was born into what he described as an “ultra-orthodox” religious family. He was unable to accept the severe, quasi-Calvinist theology of his relatives, and when he attended Harvard College, he was influenced by the intellectual currents set in motion by Darwinism. He then tacked off to the radical wing of Unitarian theology. It was incumbent on the faithful—of any religious tradition—to live in ways that helped further the divine plan. This moral imperative prompted Dole, as the long-term minister in the Unitarian Church to advocate for reforms not unlike those of his parents and other relatives, including temperance, women’s suffrage, improved race relations, anti-imperialism and pacifism. This historical recovery and interpretation of Dole argues that while Dole’s radical theology was the source of his civic engagement, his iteration of the social gospel was to some extent also shaped and delimited by the socio-economic position he occupied.
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Paul T. Burlin is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New England.

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In this meticulously researched and well-written book, Paul Burlin chronicles the life and intellectual development of the Rev. Charles F. Dole, a leading liberal theologian and a prolific author. Burlin acknowledges that Dole’s optimistic “onward and upward” type of theology has long been out of fashion in academic circles, but he explains why that theology was popular in Dole’s time (the Progressive Era), and he argues effectively that we ought to know more about liberals such as Dole, a figure whom scholars have generally overlooked. Raised as an orthodox Calvinist in Maine, Dole ended up as a progressive Unitarian minister in Boston, and Burlin ably recounts this interesting transformation. He also uses Dole as a lens through which to view how the Protestant establishment responded to major nineteenth and early twentieth century movements such as evolutionism, pacificism, socialism, Black rights, and women’s rights.

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