Willard L. Sperry - Fox, William L.
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Willard L. Sperry (1882-1954) was dean of the Harvard Divinity School for thirty years during a period of major adjustment in liberal Protestant theology. With a New England Congregational background Sperry prepared his career in theology at Queens College, Oxford, among the first group of Rhodes Scholars. Unlike many others after the Great War who became disillusioned with liberal positions, Sperry discovered a neglected middle ground, where he could reconcile the romanticism of Wordsworth with the austerity of Calvin. His sense of irony and paradox anticipated Reinhold Niebuhr by ten years.

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Willard L. Sperry (1882-1954) was dean of the Harvard Divinity School for thirty years during a period of major adjustment in liberal Protestant theology. With a New England Congregational background Sperry prepared his career in theology at Queens College, Oxford, among the first group of Rhodes Scholars. Unlike many others after the Great War who became disillusioned with liberal positions, Sperry discovered a neglected middle ground, where he could reconcile the romanticism of Wordsworth with the austerity of Calvin. His sense of irony and paradox anticipated Reinhold Niebuhr by ten years.
Autorenporträt
The Author: William L. Fox received the A.B. from St. Lawrence University, the M.Div. from Harvard University and the Ph.D. from The George Washington University. He is the Senior Minister of Pilgrim Congregational Church of Pomona, California, and an adjunct lecturer in Church History at the School of Theology in Claremont.
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"William Fox' account of Sperry, an original thinker among the theologians of his time, is an excellent contribution to scholarship on Protestant liberalism. Well-written and thoroughly researched, it breaks new ground in testing some of the prevailing views concerning that movement. It also illuminates interesting facets of early twentieth-century culture." (Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., George Washington University)