Religion in Early Dedham: Dedham at the Center of the Universe

Name: Religion in Early Dedham: Dedham at the Center of the Universe
Start: November 19, 2020
End: 2020-11-14

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Thursday, November 19th, at 7:00 p.m.
Religion in Early Dedham: Dedham at the Center of the Universe

Please join us for a presentation by Dr. David Hall on Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Hall’s topic will be early religion in Dedham: Dedham at the Center of the Universe. His talk will be divided into three sections: Fairness as a Civic Principle (1636); “Visible Saints” as a Religious Principle (1637), and a Solomon-and-the-Baby Decision About Church Property (1820s).

Dr. Hall is the Bartlett Research Professor at Harvard Divinity School. He writes extensively on religion and society in seventeenth-century New England. He is also engaged in the history of literacy and reading in early America.

Detail of a 1795 image by Rev. Fisher of the First Parish Meeting House/First Parish Church in Dedham, MA.