Octavius Brooks Frothingham
About the Author
Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895) was a Boston-born Unitarian clergyman, author, and historian educated at Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School. He served congregations in Salem, Jersey City, and New York, where he became a prominent radical religious voice. Frothingham was the first president of the Free Religious Association, founded in 1867. His books include The Religion of Humanity, Life of Theodore Parker, Transcendentalism in New England, and Recollections and Impressions.
Resources by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Transcendentalism in New England: A History
Octavius Brooks Frothingham’s history traces the philosophical and literary backgrounds of New England Transcendentalism and examines its practical and religious tendencies, with chapters on Emerson, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, and George Ripley. The supplied scan has an 1880 title page; the archive’s 1876 date agrees with the dated preface but does not identify this scanned issue. The reader contents include the original Preface, fifteen chapters, and the whole Index. The first Index page has a damaged folio; its page number is inferred from the following page.
Digitized source: Internet Archive / Google Books. Chapter openings and terminal sections have been checked; the scan has not been collated leaf by leaf.
Read LessTheodore Parker: A Biography
A biography of Theodore Parker by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, covering his education, ministry, theological controversies, European travels, abolitionism, and other reform work. This is the 1874 Boston issue. The reader contents follow the twenty original chapters and the whole Index. Chapter XIV links to its actual opening, printed page 352, correcting the contents page’s 353.
Digitized source: Internet Archive / Google Books. Chapter openings and terminal sections have been checked; the scan has not been collated leaf by leaf.
Read LessThe Religion of Humanity
A systematic statement of liberal and naturalistic religion centred on humanity, moral development, and the authority of conscience. Octavius Brooks Frothingham reconsiders God, the Bible, Christ, atonement, providence, immortality, moral inspiration, and the education of conscience in light of modern criticism and an ethical religion of humanity.
Read LessArticle and chapter contributions
Entries this person contributed to inside a larger issue or volume. They are not listed as authors of the whole issue.
- Proceedings at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association — Address of O. B. Frothingham (Author) — 45
- Proceedings at the First Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Held in Boston, May 28th and 29th, 1868 — Address of the President (Contributor) — 19
- Proceedings at the First Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Held in Boston, May 28th and 29th, 1868 — Closing Address of the President (Contributor) — 105
- Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Held in Boston, May 26 and 27, 1870 — Address of the President (Contributor) — 14
- Freedom and Fellowship in Religion: A Collection of Essays and Addresses — The Soul of Protestantism (Author) — 265
- The Unitarian Review, May 1889 (Volume XXXI, No. 5) — The Free Religious Association (Author) — 385