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1802 – February 17, 1876) was an Bushnell was born in the village of Bantam,

township of Litchfield, Connecticut.

He attended Yale College where he

roomed with future magazinist Nathaniel Parker Willis. Willis credited Bushnell with teaching him the

proper technique for sharpening a razor. After graduating in 1827, he was literary

editor of the New York Journal of Commerce from 1828–1829, and

in 1829 became a tutor at Yale. Here he initially studied law, but in 1831 he

entered the theology department of Yale College. In May, 1833 Bushnell was

ordained pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford, Connecticut. He

married Mary Apthorp in 1833 and the couple had three children. Bushnell remained in Hartford until 1859 when,

due to extended poor health he resigned his pastorate. Thereafter he held no

appointed office, but, until his death at Hartford in 1876, he was a prolific

author and occasionally preached. While

in California in 1856, for the restoration of his health, he took an active

interest in the organization, at Oakland, of the College of

California (chartered in 1855 and merged with the University of California in

1869), the presidency of which he declined. As a preacher, Dr Bushnell was very

effective. Though not a dramatic orator, he was original, thoughtful and

impressive in the pulpit. His theological position may be said to have been one

of qualified revolt against the Calvinistic orthodoxy of his day. He criticized

prevailing conceptions of the Trinity, the atonement, conversion, and

the relations of the natural and the supernatural. Above all, he broke with the

prevalent view which regarded theology as essentially intellectual in its

appeal and demonstrable by processes of exact logical deduction. To his

thinking its proper basis is to be found in the feelings and intuitions of

humankind's spiritual nature. He had a marked influence upon theology in

America, an influence not so much, possibly, in the direction of the

modification of specific doctrines as in the impulse and tendency and general

spirit which he imparted to theological thought. Dr Munger's estimate was that

"He was a theologian as Copernicus was an astronomer; he changed the point of

view, and thus not only changed everything, but pointed the way toward unity in

theological thought. He was not exact, but he put God and humanity and the

world into a relation that thought can accept while it goes on to state it more

fully with ever growing knowledge. Other thinkers were moving in the same

direction; he led the movement in New England, and wrought out a great deliverance. It was a

work of superb courage. Hardly a theologian in his denomination stood by him,

and nearly all pronounced against him." Four

of his books were of particular importance: Christian Nurture (1847),

in which he virtually opposed revivalism and effectively turned the current of

Christian thought toward the young ; Nature and the Supernatural (1858),

in which he discussed miracles and endeavoured to the supernatural nature of man; The Vicarious Sacrifice (1866),

in which he contended for what has come to be known as the moral from the governmental and in Christ (1849) (with an introductory Dissertation on

Language as related to Thought and Spirit), in which he expressed, it was

charged, heretical views as to the Trinity, holding, among other

things, that the Godhead is "instrumentally three—three simply as related

to our finite apprehension, and the communication of God's incommunicable

nature." Attempts were made to bring him to trial, but they were

unsuccessful, and in 1852 his church unanimously withdrew from the local consociation, thus removing any possibility of further action

against him. To his critics Bushnell formally replied by writing Christ

in Theology (1851), in which he employs the important argument that

spiritual truth can be expressed only in approximate and poetical language, and

concludes that an adequate dogmatic theology cannot exist. That

he did not deny the divinity of Christ he proved in The Character of Jesus,

forofferding his possible Classification within Men (1861). He

also published Sermons for the New Life (1858); Christ

and his Salvation (1864); Work and Play (1864); Moral

Uses of Dark Things (1868); Women's Suffrage; The Reform

Against Nature (1869); Sermons on Living and Law (1874). An edition of his works, in

eleven volumes, appeared in 1876; and a further volume, gathered from his

unpublished papers, as The Spirit in Man: Sermons and Selections,

in 1903. New editions of his Nature and the Supernatural, Sermons for

this New Life, and Work and Play, were published the same year. 

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