E. H. Chapin
Personal Information
Description
Edwin Hubbell Chapin was born in Union Village, Washington County, New York. He attended a seminary at Birmington, Vermont. In 1838 he was ordained as pastor. In 1940 he moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts to be pastor of the School Street Society in Boston. In 1848 he moved to New York City to be pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society. He remained there for eighteen years, and wrote several religious works, including the Crown of Thorns, Discourses on the Lord's Prayer, Characters of the Gospel, Moral Aspects of City Life, and Humanity in the City. He was one of the pastors in the "Broad Church Movement". He died in 1880, and in 1894 the Chapin Memorial Church at Oneonta, New York was dedicated to him.
Books
Humanity in the city
Sermons by Edwin Hubbell Chapin. A Universalist, Chapin was preaching to his affluent and influential New York City congregation on the ways of living faithfully in the city.
Hours of communion
Chapin offers a series of meditations collected together for those preparing to participate in or celebrate the Lord's Supper. A Universalist, Chapin's meditations focus on the role of meditating on the life of Christ for religious character formation. He also limns out the Universalist message of God's unending and abundant love, and the work of a joyful religion contending with life's troubles and vicissitudes.
Living words
Quotations from Edwin Hubbell Chapin's extensive works. Universalist