Background
Willard was born on April 5, 1882 in Peabody, Massachussets, United States, the son of Willard Gardner and Henrietta Learoyd Sperry.
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The disciplines of liberty; the faith and conduct of the Christian freeman
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Signs of These Times (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Signs of These Times I AM deeply conscious of the honor and the opportunity which came to me as the first of the lecturers on the Ayer Foundation at the colgate-rochester Divinity School. To stand in a succession of lecturers, on one and another of the foundations such as this, is a privilege. To inaugurate a lectureship is a graver te sponsibility. As a professor of practical theology I have a roving commission which pledges me to the consideration of the general concerns of reli gion. These pages attempt to identify four or five of the moot points in modern American Christianity, where our creeds and our culture come into contact. I have tried to follow the battle to the places where there is a real issue, where too meagre accounts of religion may lay us open to danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Reality in worship;: A study of public worship and private religion,
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The Disciplines of Liberty: The Faith and Conduct of the Christian Freeman
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Willard Learoyd Sperry
Edit ProfileEducation
Sperry received the B. A. from Olivet College, in Olivet, Michigan in 1903. Although he had intended to pursue biology and medicine, the suicide of a boyhood friend led him to study philosophy and religion, as well as literature.
Sperry received the M. A. at Oxford in 1907 with first class honors in theology. He then spent a year at Yale University, where he studied church history with Williston Walker and biblical subjects with Frank Chamberlain Porter.
Career
In 1904 Sperry was selected as one of the first American Rhodes scholars; at Queens College, Oxford. He took the M. A. degree in 1908 and accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of Fall River, Massachussets, where he was ordained to the ministry and served under the Reverend William Wisner Adams. In 1913 he became minister of the Central Congregational Church in Boston.
In 1917 Sperry was invited to teach homiletics and practical theology at the Andover Theological Seminary, then associated with the divinity school of Harvard University. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed a member of Harvard's Board of Preachers. In 1922 he resigned his pastorate to become dean of the new theological school that resulted from the union of Andover and Harvard. He brought great expectations to the new post which were, however, soon disappointed, when the conservative Andover board of visitors brought successful suit to keep their school from being absorbed into Harvard.
The union of the two schools was declared invalid in 1925, and Sperry found himself presiding over a dispersed Andover and a dispirited Harvard. He agreed to remain as dean of the Harvard Divinity School, to salvage what could be saved.
In 1928 Sperry succeeded Edward Caldwell Moore as chairman of the Harvard Board of Preachers and Plummer professor of Christian morals. His duties included acting as pastor, preacher, and chaplain to the Harvard community. He soon became one of Harvard's most visible personalities.
He died on May 15, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachussets.
Achievements
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Willard Learoyd Sperry was a famous prolific writer, published twenty-one books and many articles and essays. His literary gifts, as much as his ecumenical vision, cast him in the role of chairman of the Commission on the Church's Unity in Life and Work at the Edinburgh Conference of Faith and Order in 1938, and he drafted the committee's report. He was also a member of the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. His books include Reality in Worship: A Study of Public Worship and Private Religion (1925); We Prophesy in Part: A Re-examination of the Liberty of Prophesying (1938); and Religion in America (1946).
Works
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Signs of These Times (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Signs of These Times I AM deeply conscious ...)
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The disciplines of liberty; the faith and conduct of the Christian freeman
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
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The Disciplines of Liberty: The Faith and Conduct of the Christian Freeman
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- Reality in worship;: A study of public worship and private religion,
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Signs of These Times (Classic Reprint)
Views
Quotations:
"The world is very apt to tell you that college will take away the religion that you learned at your mother's knee. That is not so. .. For if you learned a real religion there nothing that college can do can ever take away that real religion. Learn to distinguish between scientific fact and law on one hand, and the religious life on the other ("My Instinct and the Real World, " Intercollegian, 1923).
The utensils of progress did not impress him, and in his 1927 Hibbert Lectures he stated that "All our inventions are improved means to an unimproved end. "
Connections
He married Muriel Bennett on December 15, 1908. They had one daughter.
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Religion
Protestant