Unitarian minister, biblical critic and abolitionist, associated with the Transcendental Club. His 1841 sermon The Transient and Permanent in Christianity argued that Christian truth does not depend on the historical accuracy of scripture or miracle, a claim close to the one that cost Emerson his welcome at Harvard three years earlier.
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Fellow member of the Transcendental Club; Parker's 1841 sermon The Transient and Permanent in Christianity made a Biblical-criticism argument close to Emerson's own 1838 address.
Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Wikipedia: Theodore Parker
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Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810, May 10, 1860) was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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