From Evolution to Humanism in 19th and 20th Century America

W. Creighton Peden

Nov 2015 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

About this ebook

This book provides a background to the development of Humanism. It considers a range of important figures in the movement in the 19th century, including R. W. Emerson, F. E. Abbot, William J. Potter, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and G. B. Foster.

About the author

W. Creighton Peden is Fuller E. Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia Regents University. He received his BA from Davidson College, his MA in Theology and MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and his PhD in Philosophical Theology from St Andrews University, Scotland. Peden has published intellectual biographies on the Early Chicago School in Theology: E. S. Ames – Christian Pragmatism; G. B. Foster – From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion; A. E. Haydon – A Good Life in a World Made Good; Gerald Birney Smith – Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, 1868–1929; H. N. Wieman – The Life and Thought of Henry Nelson Wieman; and B. E. Meland – Life and Thought of Bernard Eugene Meland; and is co-editor, with John N. Gaston, of Bernard Eugene Meland’s Unpublished Papers. He is also the author of Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860–1960, and co-author, with Charles Hartshorne, of Whitehead’s View of Reality.