Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson

Orestes Augustus Brownson was a nineteenth-century American essayist, editor, religious thinker, and political commentator whose convictions changed markedly across his career. An Essay in Refutation of Atheism and An Oration on Liberal Studies belong to his philosophical and educational writing. New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church presents his early effort to connect Christian thought with social reform. The Mediatorial Life of Jesus. A Letter to Rev. William Ellery Channing, … is an 1842 theological letter addressed to Channing. The War for the Union turns to constitutional duty during the American Civil War. Brownson founded and edited the Boston Quarterly Review, later became a Roman Catholic, and continued to write on civil liberty, church and state, education, and national identity. Collected editions prepared by his son Henry F. Brownson also carried his arguments to later readers.