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Coburn, John Bowen was born on September 27, 1914 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Aaron Cutler and Eugenia Bowen (Woolfolk) Coburn.
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The purpose of this volume says John Coburn is to help you pray and grow in your personal religious life. It is a book about your inner life and your relationship with God. Although this relationship is unique for each person, there is a general way in which God deals with us and through which we respond. This book is concerned with this general pattern. Chapters include: • Prayer is Response to God • Be Yourself and Begin with Where You Are • Clearing the Ground: When, Where, and How to Pray • The Foundation Stones of Prayer: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Confession, Intercession, Petition • The House that Prayer Builds: Prayers that You Think, that You Feel, that You Will • Progress in Prayer: Practicing the Presence of God; Reading, Prayer Groups, Retreats; a Rule of Life; On Beginning Again • Mature Personal Religion: Action and Worship • On Suffering and Joy
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Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews It is always difficult to describe and evaluate fiction that is manufactured to surround information and/or to instill a given attitude. Most fail to meet any literary standard applied. And yet, many of these books find defenders and a market because a certain amount of information filters through the fictional baffle screen. Anne and the Sand Dobbies is a case in point. It is intended as a book about death to be used by both parents and children. The author is Dean of Cambridge Theological Seminary. He immediately loses the storyteller's greatest audience advantage by giving away the story climax at the start; the reader is told that baby Anne and the dog Bonnie die. In choosing to tell the story in the words of an 11-year-old boy, other advantages are lost; vocabulary, insight and overview must all be kept within the limited range of Danny. His 2-year-old sister Anne, to whom he is devoted, dies of overnight pneumonia. The Episcopal funeral service, suggested parental attitudes (by example) towards death, grief and cremation are the facts Danny's story are meant to introduce. An awkward sub-plot is used to underline all this. It involves the death of the family dog. This leads to a re-enactment of the funeral service by Danny and his siblings which he reports in a self-consciously cute manner. The sand dobbies of the title are fantasy creatures. Their presence in the story is an element of further confusion. Readers of very formal or fundamental persuasions will find this treatment of the questions raised by the facts of death too casual.
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Coburn, John Bowen was born on September 27, 1914 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Aaron Cutler and Eugenia Bowen (Woolfolk) Coburn.
AB with high honors, Princeton University, 1936. Doctor of Divinity, Princeton University, 1960. Bachelor's Degree cum laude, Union Theological Seminary, 1942.
Doctor of Divinity, Amherst College, 1955. Doctor of Divinity, Harvard University, 1964. Doctor of Divinity, Huron College, 1964.
Doctor of Divinity, Middlebury College, 1970. Doctor of Divinity, Bucknell University, 1971. Doctor of Divinity, Trinity College, 1980.
Doctor of Divinity, Hamilton College, 1982. Doctor of Divinity, Williams College, 1982. STD, Berkeley Division School, 1958.
Doctor of Divinity, Hobart College, William Smith Colleges, 1967. Doctor of Canon Law, Kenyon College, 1968. Department of Science and Technology, General Theological Seminary, 1968.
Data Control Language, University Kent, Canterbury, England, 1978.
Teacher English and biology, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey., 1936-1939; assistant minister, Grace Church, New York City, 1942-1944; rector, Grace Church, Amherst, Massachusetts chaplain, Amherst College, 1946-1953; dean, Trinity Cathedral, Newark, 1953-1957; dean, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957-1968; teacher, St. Academy, Urban League, Harlem, New York City, 1968-1969; rector, St. James' Church, New York City, 1969-1975; Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1976-1986. Director Corning Glass Works. Delegate Epsicopal General Convention, 1955, 61, 64, 67, 69, 70, 73, president house deps., 1967-1976.
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Trustee Princeton, Wooster School, Union Theological Seminary Lieutenant (senior grade), Chaplains Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946.
Married Ruth Alvord Barnum, May 26, 1941. Children: Thomas, Judith, Michael, Sarah.