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Charles Carroll Everett
1829–1900
A 19th-century American theologian and philosopher, this Harvard scholar spent decades exploring how faith, reason, and religious experience fit together. He also helped shape theological education in the United States through his long service at Harvard Divinity School.
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Christianity and Modern Thought
by Henry W. (Henry Whitney) Bellows, James Freeman Clarke, Athanase Coquerel, Orville Dewey, Charles Carroll Everett, Frederic Henry Hedge, James Martineau, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston) Peabody, George Vance Smith, Oliver Stearns
About the author
Born in Brunswick, Maine, on June 19, 1829, Charles Carroll Everett was an American minister, philosopher, and teacher. He graduated from Bowdoin College, studied in Berlin, and later earned a divinity degree from Harvard, building a career that joined broad learning with deep religious interest.
Everett taught at Bowdoin before moving to Harvard Divinity School, where he served as Bussey Professor of Theology and eventually as dean. He became known for writing and lecturing on religion, ethics, and philosophy, and for approaching Christianity with an open, thoughtful, and intellectually serious spirit.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 16, 1900. Remembered as both a scholar and a religious leader, Everett belonged to a generation that tried to meet modern thought without giving up the spiritual depth of religious life.