Francis Greenwood Peabody

The Reverend

Francis Greenwood Peabody
Born December 4, 1847
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died December 28, 1936 (aged 89)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse
Cora Weld
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(m. 1872; died 1914)​
Parents
Ecclesiastical career
Religion Christianity (Unitarian)
Ordained 1874
Academic background
Alma mater Harvard University
Influences
Academic work
Discipline Theology
Sub-discipline Christian ethics
School or tradition Social Gospel
Institutions Harvard University

Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University.

Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a junior, "he was first baseman in the first Harvard nine to play against Yale." He then went to the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1872 with the degrees of AM and STB.

Peabody died in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on December 28, 1936.

Works

  • Jesus Christ and the Christian Character by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 0-559-60371-1
  • The Christian Life in the Modern World by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-61593-0
  • The Religious Education of an American Citizen by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-58699-X
  • Organized Labor and Capital: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1904 [1], with Washington Gladden, Talcott Williams, and George Hodges
  • Afternoons in the College Chapel by Francis Greenwood Peabody 1898

Translations

  • Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life, by Karl Hilty (1903)