Background
Duncan Howlett was born on May 15, 1906, in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. He had two sisters, Ruth Howlett Duhig and Edith Helen Howlett.
Duncan Howlett
Cambridge, MA, United States
Duncan Howlett received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1928 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1931. Following the practice of law for two years, in 1933 he yielded to a lifelong interest in religion and returned to Harvard where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology with honors in 1936.
168 College Ave, Orono, ME 04469, United States
Upon his retirement from the ministry at the age of 64, Duncan Howlett enrolled in a program of special studies at the University of Maine.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Duncan Howlett received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1928 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1931. Following the practice of law for two years, in 1933 he yielded to a lifelong interest in religion and returned to Harvard where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology with honors in 1936.
168 College Ave, Orono, ME 04469, United States
Upon his retirement from the ministry at the age of 64, Duncan Howlett enrolled in a program of special studies at the University of Maine.
(The first stage in the argument on the significance of th...)
The first stage in the argument on the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls having passed, it is now time for the more balanced and careful consideration afforded by this book. When the Scrolls are allowed to speak for themselves; when they are laid side by side with the Old and New Testaments, Duncan Howlett shows that the origins of Christianity become clearer and that the result is to strengthen rather than to diminish Christian faith. What is the story of the people who wrote the Scrolls? How did they live? What drew them away from Jerusalem to the desert? How did they emerge from Traditional Judaism? How did they influence the beginnings of Christianity? In this book, the answers to these questions are supplied as fully as recent research permits, and the reading is vastly illuminating. As the picture becomes clearer, it is revealed that the Essenes prepared the soil in which Christianity germinated, took root and enjoyed its first growth.
https://www.amazon.com/Essenes-Christianity-Interpretation-Dead-Scrolls/dp/B000NXGJPY
1957
https://www.amazon.com/fourth-American-faith-Duncan-Howlett/dp/B00005VYSO
1964
https://www.amazon.com/No-Greater-Love-James-Story/dp/B0007DPQGI
1966
(A combination of history, philosophy, theology, and cultu...)
A combination of history, philosophy, theology, and cultural analysis of religious tradition.
https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Way-Religion-Library-Liberal/dp/0879752661
1980
(Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and ...)
Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries then collapsed. Why, when so many people hunger for religious expression unhampered by traditionalism? Duncan Howlett argues that a fatal flaw at the heart of the movement undercut its progress. The Liberals were unwilling or unable to hold to their own central principle: the need to maintain a free and open mind, heart, and spirit in religion. In the end, Liberalism always fell back on its understanding of the basic traditions and dogmas of organized religions. Alert minds drawn to Liberalism by the prospect of complete freedom of thought in religion felt betrayed, and many abandoned the movement. Howlett summons us to a new and self-consistent Liberalism, one that tests to the uttermost the validity of every belief we hold. True Liberalism means a continuing quest for ever broader and deeper concepts of truth. It means allowing no exceptions to the standards of inquiry that religious Liberals inherited from the Enlightenment and from science. Is there then no end to the search for truth when the mind, heart, and spirit are completely free? Does a thorough-going Liberalism give us nothing to believe in or to live by? Howlett's answer is clear and emphatic. The latter half of the book spells out the positive beliefs of a self-consistent Liberalism and the demands those beliefs place upon us.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Flaw-Heart-Liberal-Religion/dp/0879759232
1995
Duncan Howlett was born on May 15, 1906, in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. He had two sisters, Ruth Howlett Duhig and Edith Helen Howlett.
Duncan Howlett received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1928 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1931. Following the practice of law for two years, in 1933 he yielded to a lifelong interest in religion and returned to Harvard where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology with honors in 1936.
Upon his retirement from the ministry at the age of 64, he enrolled in a program of special studies at the University of Maine.
Duncan Howlett was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in Salem, Massachusetts, on November 17, 1935. Howlett served at that church from 1933 to 1938. From there he went to the First Unitarian Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts (from 1938 to 1946). In September 1946 he became Minister of the First Church in Boston, a position he held for the next twelve years. In 1958, he was called to All Souls Church, in Washington, District of Columbia, the position from which he retired in 1968. After retirement, he became a tree farmer.
Interested in public affairs during the entire range of his ministry, Howlett also played an active role in Unitarian denominational affairs, serving as president and chairman of many national organizations, including the Unitarian Historical Society and the Washington, District of Columbia Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He was the first president of the Small Woodland Owners Association.
Howlett has written the following books: Man Against the Church; The Struggle Between Religion and Ecclesiasticism (1954); The Essenes and Christianity; An Interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1957); The Fourth American Faith (1964); No Greater Love: The James Reeb Story (1966); The Critical Way in Religion (1980); and The Fatal Flaw at the Heart of Religious Liberalism (1995).
Duncan Howlett gained national attention as an advocate of civil rights while he was a minister at All Souls Church. He received honorary Doctorate Degrees from Emerson College (1957) in Boston, Massachusetts, and Meadville Theological Seminary at the University of Chicago (1958). He received many other awards in this field including the Distinguished Service Citation of the National Wildlife Federation and the American Forestry Association Citizen of the Year Conservation Award (1974).
(The first stage in the argument on the significance of th...)
1957(Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and ...)
1995(A combination of history, philosophy, theology, and cultu...)
1980Duncan Howlett was a leader for social justice in the struggle for civil rights. He supported Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s protests against racism in America and joining in marches in the United States capital and across Mississippi. He was deeply involved in the environmental movement, particularly in the area of forestry.
In Maine, Duncan Howlett organized the Small Woodland Owners Association.
Duncan Howlett was married to Margaret Merritt Howlett. She died in 1933. He had a daughter from his first marriage, Margaret Howlett. He later married Carolyn Chance Howlett. They had three children, Carolyn Korth, Albert Howlett, and Richard Howlett.
