Clarence R. Skinner

From Philosopedia

Skinner, Clarence Russell (1881–1949)

Skinner, a professor at Tufts College and a Universalist minister, opposed both world wars.

The Dean of Crane Theological School (1933–1945), he is generally considered as being the most important 20th-century Universalist leader. He moved the denomination toward a more political and “this-worldly” understanding of the term Universalist.

For him it is not enough simply to be in the world - it is also necessary to judge the world, ethically and religiously.

With Alfred S. Cole, Skinner wrote Hell’s Ramparts Fell (1941), a biography of John Murray. Charles A. Howe has edited Clarence R. Skinner, Prophet of a New Universalism (1999).

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