Thomas Thayer
Thomas Baldwin Thayer (born September 10, 1812 in Boston , † February 12, 1886 in Roxbury , Boston) was the leading universalist in theology of the United States in the late 19th century.
Life
Nothing is known about Thayer's parents and childhood. He attended Harvard University , but left after a year to teach the deity and its existence. He was ordained in 1832 and called as pastor of the first universalist society in Lowell from 1833 to 1835 . During the crusade from 1840 to 1842 against universalism, he founded and worked in his defense of the Star of Bethlehem and with his colleague Abel C. Thomas (1807-1880) in the same interest.
Thayer was in 1845 to a new parish in the district of Brooklyn in NYC called. There he edited the Golden Rules in the interests of the Odd Fellows fraternity . In 1851 he returned to his old parish in Lowell. In 1859 Thayer became pastor of Shawmut Avenue Church in Boston, which he left in 1867. He was also a member of the editorial team of the Universalist Quarterly from 1862 . There he wrote some of his most important literary works. He continued his work at intervals on his travels through Europe and further east.
Thayer received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Tufts University in 1865 . He had also been at the head of Harvard's overseers for some time. Thayer was a biblical scholar of rare breadth and a pioneer in universalistic literature.
Works
Thayer wrote many verses that were never collected. He published:
- Bible Class Assistant (German Bible class assistant ) (Boston, 1840)
- Christianity against infidelity (German Christianity against infidelity ) and The truth of the Gospel hystory (German The truth of the story of the Gospel ) (Boston 1833 and Cincinnati 1839)
- History of the Origin of Endless Punishment (German history of the origin of the endless penalties ) (1855)
- Theology of Universalimus (German Theologie des Universalismus ) (1862)
- Over the river (German Über den Fluss ) (1864)
Individual evidence
- ^ Harvard biography
- ↑ a b c Thayer, Thomas Baldwin . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 6 : Sunderland - Zurita . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1889, p. 73 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thayer, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thayer, Thomas Baldwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American universalist in religious studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1886 |
| Place of death | Roxbury (Boston) , Massachusetts, United States |