Channing, William Ellery 1780-1842

Overview

Works:	1,148 works in 3,689 publications in 3 languages and 52,525 library holdings
Genres:	Controversial literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography History Sermons Church history
Roles:	Author, Editor, Former owner, Other, Inscriber

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Most widely held works about William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing by Arthur W Brown( Book )
Always young for liberty: a biography of William Ellery Channing / by Arthur W. Brown by Arthur W Brown( Book )
The religion of democracy : seven liberals and the American moral tradition by Amy Kittelstrom( Book )
William Ellery Channing : an essay on the liberal spirit in America by Andrew Delbanco( Book )
The philosophy of William Ellery Channing by Robert Leet Patterson( Book )

The great religious leaders by Charles Francis Potter( Book )
The art of prophesying : New England sermons and the shaping of belief by Teresa Toulouse( Book )
Providence and love : studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin by John B Beer( Book )
Unitarianism : its origin and history, a course of 16 lectures delivered in Channing Hall, Boston, 1888-89 by American Unitarian Association( Book )
William Ellery Channing, minister of religion by John White Chadwick( Book )
Four American leaders by Charles William Eliot( Book )
Memoirs, miscellanies and letters, of the late Lucy Aikin: including those addressed to the Rev. Dr. Channing from 1826 to 1842 by Lucy Aikin( Book )
The life of William Ellery Channing, D.D by William Ellery Channing( Book )
Reminiscences of Rev. Wm. Ellery Channing, D.D by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody( Book )
The scholar, the jurist, the artist, the philanthropist. An address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at their anniversary, August 27, 1846 by Charles Sumner( Book )
William Ellery Channing; a centennial memory by Charles T Brooks( Book )
An address delivered at the funeral of Rev. William Ellery Channing, D.D. in the Federal street meeting-house, October 7, 1842 by Ezra S Gannett( Book )
Channing, the reluctant radical; a biography by Jack Mendelsohn( Book )
Memoir of William Ellery Channing : with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts by William Ellery Channing( Book )

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Most widely held works by William Ellery Channing

Slavery by William Ellery Channing( Book )

108 editions published between 1831 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 995 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the years preceding the American Civil War, religion was at the heart of the debate over slavery. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) had rejected the strict Calvinism of his background to become the leading Unitarian spokesman and preacher, and in later life he began to address the subject of slavery. Published in 1836, this work was Channing's most substantial contribution to the debate, revealing the real difficulties men such as Channing had in questioning a practice with which they had grown up. He vacillates between contempt for the institution and empathy for the slaveholders, writing, 'I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave-holder.' He sees black slaves as humans, but not of equal status with white people. The final chapter is particularly prescient: 'There is a great dread ... that the union of the States may be dissolved by the conflict about slavery.'

A sermon delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Jared Sparks : to the pastoral care of the first independent church in Baltimore, May 5, 1819 by William Ellery Channing( Book )

69 editions published between 1819 and 1982 in English and held by 819 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Channing, the reluctant radical; a biography by Jack Mendelsohn( Book )

2 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Emancipation by William Ellery Channing( Book )

41 editions published between 1840 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 499 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Ellery Channing : selected writings by William Ellery Channing( Book )

4 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The duty of the free states : Second part by William Ellery Channing( Book )

54 editions published between 1842 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 415 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discourses on war by William Ellery Channing( Book )

21 editions published between 1903 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 381 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A letter to the Rev. Samuel C. Thacher, on the aspersions contained in a late number of the Panoplist, on the ministers of Boston and the vicinity by William Ellery Channing( Book )

29 editions published between 1815 and 1975 in English and held by 371 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A letter to the Hon. Henry Clay : on the annexation of Texas to the United States by William Ellery Channing( Book )

36 editions published between 1837 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sermon, preached in Boston, April 5, 1810, the day of the public fast by William Ellery Channing( Book )

22 editions published between 1810 and 1974 in English and held by 338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The works of William E. Channing, D.D by William Ellery Channing( Book )

37 editions published between 1841 and 1848 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies by William Ellery Channing( Book )

20 editions published between 1830 and 2012 in English and held by 217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Remarks on the slavery question : in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq. by William Ellery Channing( Book )

27 editions published between 1839 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An address delivered at Lenox, on the first of August 1842, the anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies by William Ellery Channing( Book )

18 editions published in 1842 in English and held by 175 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An address on temperance by William Ellery Channing( Book )

34 editions published between 1800 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The works of William E. Channing, D.D. : with an introduction by William Ellery Channing( Book )

11 editions published between 1849 and 2017 in English and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A sermon, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Ezra Stiles Gannett as colleague pastor of the Church of Christ, in Federal-Street, Boston, June 30, 1824 by William Ellery Channing( Book )

16 editions published in 1824 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of William Ellery Channing, D.D by William Ellery Channing( Book )

8 editions published between 1880 and 1975 in English and held by 31 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memoir of William Ellery Channing : with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts by William Ellery Channing( Book )

16 editions published between 1850 and 2005 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the elevation of the laboring classes by William Ellery Channing( )

6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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