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The gates of the church: A sermon preached in the United church in New Haven, November 22d, 1885. Statement of belief: read before the Installing ... November 19th, 1885, by Rev. T.T. Munger, D.D
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Historical Discourse Preached on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the United Church May 8th 1892
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Theodore Thornton Munger was an American Congregational clergyman.
Background
Theodore T. Munger was born on March 5, 1830, in Bainbridge, New York, the fifth child of Dr. Ebenezer Munger and Cynthia Selden, and a descendant of Nicholas Munger, who emigrated from England to New Haven probably about 1639. On his father's side he was of the sixth generation from John Eliot, apostle to the Indians, and by his mother he was in direct descent from Thomas Selden, who came to Hartford, Connecticut, with Thomas Hooker in 1636.
When Munger was six years of age the family removed to Homer, New York.
Education
Entering Yale in 1847, Munger gave himself more to general reading than to the prescribed course of studies.
He graduated in 1851, and from the Yale Divinity School in 1855.
Career
After spending a term in Andover Theological Seminary, Munger accepted a call to the village church (Congregational) of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in which he was ordained February 6, 1856. He served successively churches in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, Lawrence, Massachusetts, San José, California, East Hartford, Connecticut, and North Adams, Massachusetts.
In 1885 he became minister of the United Church, New Haven, Connecticut, continuing until, having reached the age of seventy, he resigned and was made pastor emeritus.
An unassertive man, his rise to general recognition was slow. He studied seriously and made himself a master of prose style; from time to time he wrote articles for the religious press. He was fifty, however, before his first book was published - a series of sermons to young people entitled On the Threshold (1880), of which more than 25, 000 had been sold when the publishers reissued it as one of the Cambridge Classics.
Lamps and Paths, a companion volume for younger readers, appeared in 1883, and the next year, a second edition, enlarged by four chapters.
His most characteristic thought found expression in The Freedom of Faith (1883), which Whittier welcomed as being "refreshing and tonic as the north wind. " It attracted wide attention, for, coming at a time of great religious unsettlement, it shed light on fundamental spiritual problems, and also revealed the essential vitality of the newer ways of thinking.
In a volume of sermons and essays called The Appeal to Life (1887) Munger characteristically interpreted truth through human experience.
In 1897 appeared a book of sermons bearing the title Character Through Inspiration. Next to The Freedom of Faith his most important book was Horace Bushnell, Preacher and Theologian (1899), a masterly interpretation of a spiritual predecessor to whom he was much indebted.
If Munger's talent was slow in maturing, it continued fruitful in old age, for after his retirement he wrote frequently for current periodicals and published an important book, Essays for the Day (1904), in his seventy-fourth year. A devoted pastor, his chief distinction was as a preacher and writer. Though lacking the peculiar gifts which make one popular with the masses, he was effective in reaching select minds of every class and condition. Theodore T. Munger died on January 13, 1910, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Achievements
Theodore Thornton Munger was a Congregational clergyman, who was prominent in his denomination as well as an active supporter of municipal reform.
Memorial tablets in his honor have been placed in Woolsey Hall, Yale University, and in the United Church, New Haven.
With his eager, intuitional mind and his ardent faith in an ever-increasing revelation of truth, Munger was constitutionally sympathetic with the New Theology. Instinctively he had been drawn to Horace Bushnell; he was also greatly inspired by F. D. Maurice; but it was Frederick Robertson who molded his manner of thinking. Robertson's six principles of thought, Munger affirmed in his last years, told him "how to know under what principles of thought to express myself. "
The first three, especially, go far to explain his ideals and methods - "the establishment of positive truth, instead of the negative destruction of error; truth is made up of two opposite propositions, spiritual truth is discerned by the spirit, instead of intellectually in propositions, and therefore should be taught suggestively, not dogmatically. " These principles, early adopted, guided him through life. In the heated debate between the champions of the old and the new ways of religious thinking, Munger was a recognized leader. Under his touch theology became literature.
Connections
On October 12, 1864, Theodore T. Munger married Elizabeth Kingsman Duncan, by whom he had three children.
After the death of his first wife, on March 5, 1889, Munger married Harriet King Osgood of Salem, Massachusetts.
