Theodore Thornton Munger was educated at Cortland Academy in Homer, New York, where the family had moved in 1836, and entered Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio in 1846. The following year he enrolled in Yale College, class of 1851.
Upon graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, studying briefly also at Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1856 at the Village Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts and served in Dorchester, Mass., until 1860; from 1864-1869 served in Haverhill, Mass., then resigned due to conflicts over his liberal theology; from 1869-1871 served in Providence, R. I., and from 1872-1875 in Lawrence, Mass.; moved to San Jose, Cal., in 1875; from 1877-1885 served in North Adams, Mass.; from 1885-1901 served in New Haven, Ct.; advocate of the "new theology" and author of numerous books.
He contributed essays to magazines and reviews and is the author of: On the Threshold (1881); The Freedom of Faith (1883); Lamps and Paths (1885); The Appeal to Life (1887); Character through Inspiration (London, 1896), all of which volumes are chiefly collections of lectures and sermons; Plain Living and High Thinking (1897), and Horace Bushnell (1899).
Munger was married in 1864 to Elizabeth Kinsman Duncan and, after her death, to Harriet King Osgood in 1889.
Upon graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, studying briefly also at Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1856 at the Village Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts and served in Dorchester, Mass., until 1860; from 1864-1869 served in Haverhill, Mass., then resigned due to conflicts over his liberal theology; from 1869-1871 served in Providence, R. I., and from 1872-1875 in Lawrence, Mass.; moved to San Jose, Cal., in 1875; from 1877-1885 served in North Adams, Mass.; from 1885-1901 served in New Haven, Ct.; advocate of the "new theology" and author of numerous books.
He contributed essays to magazines and reviews and is the author of: On the Threshold (1881); The Freedom of Faith (1883); Lamps and Paths (1885); The Appeal to Life (1887); Character through Inspiration (London, 1896), all of which volumes are chiefly collections of lectures and sermons; Plain Living and High Thinking (1897), and Horace Bushnell (1899).
Munger was married in 1864 to Elizabeth Kinsman Duncan and, after her death, to Harriet King Osgood in 1889.
Theodore Thornton Munger was educated at Cortland Academy in Homer, New York, where the family had moved in 1836, and entered Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio in 1846. The following year he enrolled in Yale College, class of 1851.
Upon graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, studying briefly also at Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1856 at the Village Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts and served in Dorchester, Mass., until 1860; from 1864-1869 served in Haverhill, Mass., then resigned due to conflicts over his liberal theology; from 1869-1871 served in Providence, R. I., and from 1872-1875 in Lawrence, Mass.; moved to San Jose, Cal., in 1875; from 1877-1885 served in North Adams, Mass.; from 1885-1901 served in New Haven, Ct.; advocate of the "new theology" and author of numerous books.
He contributed essays to magazines and reviews and is the author of: On the Threshold (1881); The Freedom of Faith (1883); Lamps and Paths (1885); The Appeal to Life (1887); Character through Inspiration (London, 1896), all of which volumes are chiefly collections of lectures and sermons; Plain Living and High Thinking (1897), and Horace Bushnell (1899).
Munger was married in 1864 to Elizabeth Kinsman Duncan and, after her death, to Harriet King Osgood in 1889.
Upon graduation he entered Yale Divinity School, studying briefly also at Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1856 at the Village Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts and served in Dorchester, Mass., until 1860; from 1864-1869 served in Haverhill, Mass., then resigned due to conflicts over his liberal theology; from 1869-1871 served in Providence, R. I., and from 1872-1875 in Lawrence, Mass.; moved to San Jose, Cal., in 1875; from 1877-1885 served in North Adams, Mass.; from 1885-1901 served in New Haven, Ct.; advocate of the "new theology" and author of numerous books.
He contributed essays to magazines and reviews and is the author of: On the Threshold (1881); The Freedom of Faith (1883); Lamps and Paths (1885); The Appeal to Life (1887); Character through Inspiration (London, 1896), all of which volumes are chiefly collections of lectures and sermons; Plain Living and High Thinking (1897), and Horace Bushnell (1899).
Munger was married in 1864 to Elizabeth Kinsman Duncan and, after her death, to Harriet King Osgood in 1889.
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