The Value and the Limitation of Allegiance to Religious Leaders

Authors

Earl Clement Davis

Document Type

Lecture

Files

Date

2-14-1909

Summary

This is from the bound collection—“bundle #4”—that includes sermons from February 14, 1909 to December 26, 1909.

This sermon pesents a view of almost inexorable human progress -- with fits and starts -- where great leaders such as Jesus, Mohammed, Martin Luther, and John Calvin among many others, express the forward-looking cultural momentum for positive change. Followers follow leaders because leaders follow the interests of their followers. But then leaders get lionized and deified, and the true moral imperative -- the ideal they have articulated -- is lost in hero-worship. The tragedy is that we lose the sense that change is brought about by positive human -- not supernatural -- action.

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The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.

Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.

Keywords

Earl Clement Davis, sermons, minister, Unitarianism, religion, philosophy

Recommended Citation

Davis, Earl Clement, "The Value and the Limitation of Allegiance to Religious Leaders" (1909). Sermons, 1905-1919. 101.
https://commons.clarku.edu/pittsfield_sermons/101

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