Forrester Church
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Frank Forrester Church IV (born September 23, 1948 in Palo Alto, California) is a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian. He is senior minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City.
[edit] Biography
Church was born in Palo Alto while his father, future United States Senator Frank Church, was a student at Stanford Law School. He was raised in Boise, Idaho, after his father's graduation.
Church is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. He received a Ph.D. in early church history from Harvard University in 1978.
Church is best known as a leader of liberal religion. He has written or edited more than 20 books since 1985. These include technical studies of Christian and Gnostic literature, as well as over a dozen books addressing a wider audience.
Church's books include:
- Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
- The trilogy A Humane Comedy: The Devil and Dr. Church, Entertaining Angels, and The Seven Deadly Virtues
- Early Christian Prayer
- Early Christian Hymns
- The Essential Tillich
[edit] External links
- Bio at Unitarian Church of All Souls website
- "For the Victims of the Day of Terror", sermon by Forrester Church. All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City, September 12, 2001.
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