- For his father, Frank Forrester Church III, the former United States Senator, see Frank Church.
| Rev. Dr. Forrest Church |
|
| Born |
Frank Forrester Church IV
September 23, 1948 (1948-09-23) (age 59)
Palo Alto, California |
| Residence |
New York City, New York, United States |
| Education |
Stanford University (A.B., 1970)
Harvard Divinity School (M.Div., 1974)
Harvard University( Ph.D., 1978) |
| Occupation |
minister, author, and theologian |
| Employer |
Unitarian Church of All Souls, New York City, New York |
| Title |
Minister of Public Theology |
| Religious beliefs |
Unitarian Universalist |
| Spouse(s) |
Carolyn Buck Luce, (1992-Present)
Amy ___ (?-1991) |
| Children |
4 |
| Parents |
Frank Forrester Church III
Bethine Clark Church |
Website
forrestchurch.com |
Frank Forrester Church IV (born September 23, 1948 in Palo Alto, California) is a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and theologian. He is Minister of Public Theology of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City having served as Senior Minister until late 2006.[1]
Biography
Church was born in Palo Alto while his father, then-future United States Senator Frank Church, was a student at Stanford Law School. He was raised in Boise, Idaho, after his father's graduation.[2]
Church is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. He received a Ph.D. in early church history from Harvard University in 1978.
On February 4, 2008, Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation informing them that he had terminal cancer. In the time remaining he planned to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work - love and death - in a final book.
Writings
Church is best known as a leader of liberal religion. He has written or edited more than 20 books since 1985. These include technical studies of Christian and Gnostic literature, as well as over a dozen books addressing a wider audience.[1]
Church's books include:
- Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
- The trilogy A Humane Comedy: The Devil and Dr. Church, Entertaining Angels, and The Seven Deadly Virtues
- Early Christian Prayer
- Early Christian Hymns
- The Essential Tillich
- God and Other Famous Liberals: Recapturing Bible, Flag, and Family from the Far Right, Walker & Company, 1996 (ISBN 978-0802774835)
- A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism, with John A. Buehrens, Beacon Press, 1998 (ISBN 0807016160)
- So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State, 2007 (ISBN 978-0151011858)
- Freedom From Fear: Finding the Courage to Act, Love and Be (ISBN 0-312-32534-7)
Books edited by Church:
- Restoring Faith: America's Religious Leaders Answer Terror with Hope, Walker & Company, 2001 (ISBN 978-0802776327)
- The Separation of Church and State: Writings on a Fundamental Freedom by America's Founders, Beacon Press, 2004 (ISBN 9780807077221)
References
Love & Death, Beacon Press, 2008, ISBN# 0807072931
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