{"id":11915,"date":"2020-09-27T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=11915"},"modified":"2021-01-27T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:58:11","slug":"the-radicalization-of-theodore-parker","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/sermons\/the-radicalization-of-theodore-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radicalization of Theodore Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Theodore Parker has been acknowledged as the premier Unitarian minister and theologian of the 19th century. A founder of the transcendentalist movement and a leading abolitionist, he believed, along with William Ellery Channing, in peacefully ending slavery through legislative means. Eventually, however, Parker became radicalized leading him and other Unitarians to violence. We\u2019ll have a glimpse of 19th century Unitarians and explore how rational people of faith might be called \u201cterrorists\u201d by today\u2019s standards.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">Theodore Parker has been acknowledged as the premier Unitarian minister and theologian of the 19th century. A founder of the transcendentalist movement and a leading abolitionist, he believed, along with William Ellery Channing, in peacefully ending slavery through legislative means. Eventually, however, Parker became radicalized leading him and other Unitarians to violence. We\u2019ll have a glimpse of 19th century Unitarians and explore how rational people of faith might be called \u201cterrorists\u201d by today\u2019s standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(By Jim Caldiero,\u00a0 member of Channing Memorial Church)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Parker has been acknowledged as the premier Unitarian minister and theologian of the 19th century. A founder of the transcendentalist movement and a leading abolitionist, he believed, along with William Ellery Channing, in peacefully ending slavery through legislative means. Eventually, however, Parker became radicalized leading him and other Unitarians to violence. We\u2019ll have a glimpse of 19th century Unitarians and explore&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11915","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12383,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11915\/revisions\/12383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}