Background
Enoch Fitch Burr was the son of Zalmon and Mary (Hanford) Burr, and descended from Jonathan Edwards, was born on October 21, 1818 at Greens Farms, near Westport, Connecticut.
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Pater Mundi: Or, Modern Science Testifying to the Heavenly Father
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Ecce C Lum: Or Parish Astronomy in Six Lectures - Primary Source Edition
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Ad Fidem: Or Parish Evidences Of The Bible (1871)
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Enoch Fitch Burr
Edit ProfileEducation
Enoch Burr prepared for college at the local academy and at Wilton, Connecticut, under Dr. Hawley Olmstead, entering the same class at Yale with Zalmon B. , his older brother. He graduated with the distinction of "class orator" in 1839 and continued for a year in the Divinity School, then led by Nathaniel W. Taylor. Two further years were spent at the college in scientific study, but failing health kept him for the next three at home.
On his mother's death he returned to New Haven and devoted nearly four years to higher mathematics and physical astronomy, his studies resulting in an application of calculus to the theory of Neptune entitled Results of Analytical Researches in the Neptunian Theory of Uranus (1848). Renewed religious interest interrupted the scientific career thus auspiciously begun. Burr had been licensed to preach in 1842.
Career
On October 3, 1850, Enoch Burr was ordained pastor of the village church of Hamburg, Connecticut, part of the ancient town of Lyme. Save for a year of travel abroad in 1855, accompanied by his wife and brother Zalmon, Hamburg remained Burr's home for life. But his energies sought wider outlet. A theological essay, Christ the Revealer of God (1854), was followed (1857 - 62) by a series of tracts and sermons, and finally, after an interval of five years, by a volume destined to give him wider reputation.
Ecce Coelum, or Parish Astronomy (1867) met so well the popular demand for science in the service of apologetics as to pass through sixteen or more editions. It also led to his appointment at Amherst from 1868 to 1874 as lecturer on The Scientific Evidences of Religion, with further invitations to lecture in New York and Boston, and at Yale and Williams.
Literary pursuits so absorbing could scarcely fail to remove the spare, austere, and often quixotic minister from his farmer parishioners. Among his conservative ministerial associates Dr. Burr loomed up as the scientific champion of the ancient faith.
Nevertheless, when, after fifty-six years of service, the aged pastor resigned his charge the church declined to accept his resignation, continuing him as pastor until his death.
Burr died at his home in Lyme at the age of 89, survived by his wife, son, and daughter.
Achievements
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Outside of his parish Enoch Burr was widely known through his scientific lectures and his numerous volumes. Two volumes, Pater Mundi (1870) and The Doctrine of Evolution (1873), contain his lectures, and show, together with two successors of similar type, Celestial Empires (1885) and Universal Beliefs (1887), the reaction of New England orthodoxy to the inroads of science. Three later volumes of sermons, Ad Fidem (1871), Toward the Strait Gate (1875), In the Vineyard (1876); a book of verse, Thy Voyage (1875); and two biblico-historical novels, Dio, the Athenian (1880) and Aleph the Chaldean (1891) may be mentioned.
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Celestial Empires (Classic Reprint)
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Tempted to Unbelief (Classic Reprint)
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In the Vineyard: A Plea for Christian Work
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Pater Mundi: Or, Modern Science Testifying to the Heavenly Father
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Pater Mundi
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Supreme Things, In Their Practical Relations
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Pater Mundi: Or, Doctrine Of Evolution
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Ecce Terra: Or, the Hand of God in the Earth
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Supreme Things: In Their Practical Relations
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Dio, the Athenian: Or, From Olympus to Calvary
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Ecce Cœlum: Or Parish Astronomy in Six Lectures
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Toward the Strait Gate; or, Parish Christianity for the Unconverted
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Pater Mundi V1: Or Modern Science Testifying To The Heavenly Father (1872)
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Ad Fidem: Or Parish Evidences Of The Bible (1871)
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Ecce C Lum: Or Parish Astronomy in Six Lectures - Primary Source Edition
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Celestial Empires (Classic Reprint)
Religion
In his religious affiliation Burr was a Congregationalist.
Views
Among his conservative ministerial associates Dr. Burr loomed up as the scientific champion of the ancient faith.
Personality
To his flock also he seemed a great man, but increasingly removed from common life.
Connections
In 1851 Enoch Burr married Harriet A. , daughter of Peter Lord of Lyme.
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