Horace Bushnell
(1802-1876)
Barnes,
Howard A. "Horace Bushnell: 'Gentry Elitist.'" Connecticut
History 19(Summer, 1977).
Cheney,
Mary B. 1.1/1; and Letters of Horace Bushnell. New York:
Harper, 1880. A husky volume. Cheney has lots of useful information,
including reminiscences of contemporaries. No scholarly apparatus;
modest index.
Cole,
Charles B. "Horace Bushnell and the Slavery Question."
New England Quarterly 23(March, 1950)1:19-30. Claims that
Bushnell was an important, though secondary, anti-slavery leader.
Cross,
Barbara M. Horace Bushnell: Minister to a Changing America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. This is an analysis
of Bushnell's religious thought. Fine, scholarly work. Citations,
bibliographical note, index.
Jones,
David Alan. "The Social and Political Thought of Horace Bushnell:
An Interpretation of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Mind."
Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, 1973. An intellectual
biography and "a deeper understanding of his age." (from
the abstract)
Lukes,
Ralph E. "Bushnell in Black and White: Evidences of the 'Racism'
of Horace Bushnell." New England Quarterly 45(September,
1972). Lukes attempts to qualify Cole's charges of racism against
Bushnell.
Rickey,
Harry F. "History as Divine Dialectical Process in the Works
of Horace Bushnell." Doctoral dissertation. University of
Iowa, 1972. The attempt is to see Bushnell's "view of history
as a dialectical process moving toward divine purpose and activated
by divine power." (from the abstract)
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