John Emerson Roberts: Kansas City's Up-to-Date Freethought Preacher - Hardcover

Young, Ellen Roberts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1462876927 ISBN 13: 9781462876921

Publisher: Xlibris, 2011

Synopsis

John Emerson Roberts (1853 - 1942) was a Kansas City, Missouri, success story. Arriving in 1881 as a Baptist minister, his developing ideas led him to abandon the idea of hell and become a Unitarian. Soon that became too limited for him and he decided to preach on his own as a freethinker. The local press eagerly followed his progress. While his intellectual journey was common in his generation, he was unique in creating a Church of freethought. His sermons and lectures show a mixture of original thinking and conventional ideas typical of his time. As an admirer of Robert Ingersoll, the nineteenth century agnostic, and a friend of Clarence Darrow, the twentieth century atheist, Roberts s career spans an era of significant change in both cultural and intellectual history.This pioneering study restores to memory the life and work of a once noted and popular religious leader, who went from Baptist pastor to Unitarian minister, and finally to an independent role in

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462876927
• ISBN 13: 9781462876921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246