Channing : The Reluctant Radical

by Jack Mendelsohn

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308 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 1979

About the author

Rev. Dr. Jack Mendelsohn (1918–2012) was a leading humanist advocate of liberal religion and Unitarian Universalism who devoted his life to racial, gender and economic justice.

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Reviews

[Bernard Norcott-mahany · Rating 4 out of 5]

William Ellery Channing is, perhaps, the most important figure in the history of the Unitarian Church. His installation sermon (delivered for Jared Sparks' installation at the Unitarian Church in Baltimore), entitled "Unitarian Christianity," finally defined the terms of Unitarian belief -- without any biblical support for the position of Jesus as God or the Holy Spirit, Unitarians, though they considered themselves Christian, could not support such a belief. Channing himself did not like the limelight and did not like confrontation, but he was too honest to subscribe to a belief he felt had inadequate support and he was brave enough to state his position publicly. This is probably the standard biography of this important figure in the history of the Unitarian Church in America. Mendelsohn was the minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, the successor to Channing's Federal Street Church.