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Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 to Mr. Davidson

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Type
Letters
Date
October 2, 1897
Author/Creator
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Title
to Mr. Davidson
Place Written
Brooklyn, New York
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 17.6 cm, Width: 11.4 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Abbott, a Congregational cleric, clergyman, and author, writes to Davidson, possibly a clergyman in an obscure pastorate. Abbott praises the "quiet work" individually undertaken by "many great men" in an effort to bring about a "new rational faith." This new faith will lay the spiritual superstructure for the coming generations, who will reject the old tradition of ecclesiastical authority. But it must be made palatable to coming generations, or the result will be "spiritual burial, followed by death social and political." Abbott was an exponent of the Social Gospel movement.

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Religion

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