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| | James Freeman Clarke |
 | | James Freeman Clarke (1810-88), an influential Unitarian minister, social reformer, popular author, scholar, and institutionalist, founded and ministered to a new kind of Unitarian church and helped to expand the identity, scope, and influence of nineteenth-century Unitarianism. |
 | | Clarke’s autobiography describes the sophisticated Boston-educated young minister’s struggles to function in the raw river town of Louisvillewith its muddy, unpaved streets, its rowdy, hard-drinking riverboat gamblers, and its unlettered farm families in town to market their produce. |
 | | Clarke’s years of biblical study had brought him to see Jesus as both a conservative and a reformer, not replacing the Law but fulfilling it, and the divinely inspired religion of Jesus not only as compatible with reason but as the very rational foundation of science. |
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