Charles Carroll Everett was an American

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 divine and philosopher.

Everett graduated from Bowdoin College

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 in 1850, after which he studied at the University of Berlin

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. He subsequently took a degree in divinity at the Harvard Divinity School

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. From 1859 to 1869 he was pastor of the Independent Congregational (Unitarian

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) church at Bangor, Maine

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. This charge he resigned to take the Bussey

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 professorship of theology at Harvard University

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, and, in 1878, became dean of the faculty of theology. He died at Cambridge on the 16th of October 1900.

Interested in a variety of subjects, he devoted himself chiefly to the philosophy of religion

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, and published The Science of Thought (Boston, 1869; revised 1891). He also wrote:

• Fichte's Science of Knowledge (1884)
• Poetry, Comedy and Duty (1888)
• Religions before Christianity (1883)
• Ethics for Young People (1891)
• The Gospel of Paul (1892)

Everett had suggested, before his death in Cambridge in 1900, that the Harvard Divinity School publish a non-denominational

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 theological journal. A few years later, his daughter's will provided the first bequest which led to the publication in 1908 of the first issue of the Harvard Theological Review

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.