Richard Heber Newton was a prominent American Episcopalian

Episcopal Church (United States)

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 priest and writer. He was rector of All Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City from 1869–1902. He was a leader in the Social Gospel

Social Gospel

The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada...

 movement, a supporter of Higher Criticism of the Bible, and sought to unify Christian churches in the United States.

In 1883 he was accused of heresy for a series of sermons later published in a book, The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible. He was again accused in 1884 and 1891 but the bishop, Henry Codman Potter

Henry Codman Potter

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, refused to go forward.

In 1903 he briefly served as first and last pastor of Stanford Memorial Church

Stanford Memorial Church

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 at Stanford University

Stanford University

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.

Works

• The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible (1883)
• The Morals
• Studies of Jesus
• Womanhood: Lectures on a Woman's Work in the World (1881)

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