The Harvard Square Library bookstore is a companion to the website of the First Parish in Cambridge, MA:
www.harvardsquarelibrary.org. Created by Herbert Vetter, it presents issues that religious liberals stand for—and against—to audiences around the globe. For his pioneering work in the communications field, he was honored in 1983, by the award of the Doctor of Divinity degree by the Meadville/Lombard Theological School, which is affiliated with the University of Chicago.
The Harvard Square Library, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It began publishing books on Lulu in 2007.
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Print: $18.95 Notable American Unitarians, begun online in 2000, is a celebration of Unitarianism by the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This book contains concise biographies of over 100 American Unitarians 1936-1961, including such luminaries as Béla Bartók and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Print: $24.95 In James Luther Adams one finds the curious, and sometimes contradictory, combination of medieval saint, Renaissance humanist, Marxist critic, Enlightenment encyclopedist, sectarian enthusiast, and bourgeois compulsive. Yet he is, in many ways, a prototypical modern man, attempting to find, confess, and, where necessary, carve out a sense of meaning large enough to preserve us from the perennial idolatries and aimlessness that flesh is heir to.
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Print: $13.95 Here we share with you a small group of the most helpful prayers which we have discovered and prized. The emphasis throughout is on world affirmation and reverence for life. Wherever necessary all these prayers of power have been degenderized. Archaic language is avoided. While the accent falls on twentieth century works of North America, many centuries and many continents are represented in this search for inner ways of making the world whole again.
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Print: $11.24 From 1810 until 1933 all of the presidents of Harvard University were Unitarians—a span of 123 years. Who were these leaders of higher education in the United States of America? The following online illustrated stories seek to answer that question. For delightfully longer biographies, see the classic Three Centuries of Harvard 1636-1936 by Samuel Eliot Morison, and Harvard Observed by John T. Bethell.
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Print: $12.95 Today there is a new movement critical of religion, “the new atheism” fostered by Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris. Harris says faith in god or gods is the most dangerous element of modern life, citing Islamic terrorism as well as Judeo-Christianity’s growing weapons of mass destruction. Dawkins says the biblical Yahweh is “psychotic,” and religion is not only nonsense but a divisive and oppressive force. Dennett describes “the God Delusion” and hopes that practitioners of religion will shrink its maleficent role in civilization.
The question addressed in this book, Is God Necessary?, is not new but is of perennial importance. What is new is that a great new discovery answers this question decisively in the twenty-first century as Darwin’s theory of evolution did in the nineteenth century.
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Print: $13.95 This book contains five parts, all relating to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From "The First Independent Thanksgiving" shows Harvard Square as the locus of the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1774. to the original "History of Cambridge," first published in 1801, was written by the Rev. Abiel Holmes. Long used by Cambridge school children, that text is here illustrated for the first time. "Harvard Honors Nelson Mandela" portrays the outdoor celebration of 25,000 people when, for only the third time in its history, Harvard presented an honorary degree outside of its regular academic convocations. University photographers abundantly recorded the occasion. Finally, "Harvard Gallery of Photographs by Rick Stafford" consists of images of people in the Harvard Square environs illustrating diverse fields of learning and life.
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Print: $16.95 Charles Hartshorne is the most influential proponent of a 'process philosophy' which considers God a participant in cosmic evolution. The Encyclopedia Brittanica (15th edition) calls Hartshorne the world’s “leading metaphysician.” A New World View looks for a better understanding of God in the Modern World.
In this volume of his essays, are such works as 'The Modern World and Modern View of God', 'A New World and a New World View' and 'Can we Prove the Existence of God'.
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