CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY


Meaning of CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY in English

born April 7, 1780, Newport, R.I., U.S.

died Oct. 2, 1842, Bennington, Vt.

U.S.

He studied theology at Harvard University and became a successful preacher. From 1803 until his death he was pastor of Boston's Federal Street Church. He began his career as a Congregationalist but gradually adopted liberal and rationalist views that came to be labeled Unitarian. In 1820 he established a conference of liberal Congregationalist clergy, later reorganized as the American Unitarian Association. Known as the "apostle of Unitarianism," he also became a leading figure in New England {{link=Transcendentalism">Transcendentalism , and his lectures and essays on slavery, war, and poverty made him one of the most influential clergymen of his day.

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