The Congregational clergyman Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) was the pivotal American theologian who freed mainstream Protestant theology from its Puritan scholasticism and established the basis for religious liberalism. Horace Bushnell was born April 14,...

BUSHNELL, HORACE (1802–1876), Congregational minister and theologian. Born in Bantam, Connecticut, and reared in nearby New Preston, Bushnell attended Yale College and the Law School in New Haven. Stirred by a revival that swept the college in...

Horace Bushnell (April 14, 1802 – February 17, 1876) was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian. Bushnell was a Yankee born in the village of Bantam, township of Litchfield, Connecticut. He graduated at Yale in 1827, was literary editor...

Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell by David Torbett Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga., 2006. 230 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-88146-032-2. NOT WITHOUT REASON have subsequent generations remembered Charles Hodge (1797-1878) and Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) as theological opposites. A biblicist who insisted...

Horace Bushnell on Christian Character Development. By Lee J. Makowski. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999. 216 pp. $52.00 cloth; $31.50 paper. Horace Bushnell is a multi-faceted figure who can be studied from a variety of perspectives. Makowski has chosen the...