Northrop Frye: A Brief Biography

Katharine once said, “Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain.” (A-Z Quotes). This quote describes Katharine’s way of working towards creating her orphanages and schools with her order. Despite overcoming many difficulties in her earlier life, Saint Katharine Drexel created her own religious order, donated generously to charities, and established schools to teach the faith the others; consequently, she is one of the most dynamic missionary saints from America.

In 1965, professional musician and composer, Glenn Holland takes up a position teaching music at John F. Kennedy High School in an attempt to enjoy more free time for composing a piece of orchestral music. Soon after he starts his new career, Holland discovers that he will have less free time than he had imagined. He also discovers that teaching a class full of teenagers is much harder than he originally thought. He eventually wins over the class by using rock and roll as a way to make classical music more accessible to his students. When his wife Iris becomes pregnant, he uses the money he had saved for producing his orchestra to buy a house for his family. Once school resumes and his son Cole is born, Holland is drafted into being in charge

At the age of 12, he was born again and at the age of 14, Stanley was called into the ministry to preach God’s word where he began working in Christian Ministry. In 1956, he was ordained into the ministry at Moffett Memorial Baptist Church in Danville, Virginia. His determination to serve God led him to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Richmond and to earn a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. However, that same year he became the pastor of his first church Fruitland Baptist Church in North Carolina and began teaching at Fruitland Bible Institute. In 1968, Stanley received his Master’s and Doctorate of Theology from Luther Rice Seminary.

In 1726 Edwards moved to Northampton to help his grandfather as assistant pastor, “he was probably more inclined to agree with the stricter views of his father rather than with his grandfather’s more open policy regarding communicant membership, but for the time being, an agreement to disagree seems to have prevailed” . When Solomon Stoddard died in February 1729, Edwards assumed full responsibility of the congregation. With the inheritance of the congregation came considerable expectations, considering Northampton regarded Solomon as a sort of deity. “New England’s occasional awakenings and other efforts to revive piety were part of an international ‘pietist’ movement” .

While his work did not engage directly with the topic, a tinge of anti-intellectualism was fostered within the movement this book examined. In Spiritual Mobilization’s magazine, Faith and Freedom, the editor devoted an entire issue to confronting clergymen who supported the Social Gospel, a movement which he claimed was led by, “a small, unusually articulate minority who feel political power is the way to save the world. . .” If the articles of the 1930’s demonstrated a distrust of the “unusually articulate,” the embracing of religious identity and language publicly by the Eisenhower administration had created an atmosphere in the 1950's whereby the Gideons International, Inc. was actively trying to influence curriculum in U.S. schools. Traveling preachers successfully utilized marketing techniques to blend entertainment, education, and religion into a single message. Sadly, that single message forbade the kind of discourse or dissent which fosters intellectual growth. Rather, the libertarian ideologies, which had inspired the original rebellion against the Social Gospel, had come to full fruition in snuffing out dissenters and making commonplace the existence of state-sanctioned

Richard Furman was born in 1755 to an Episcopal school teacher and wife and grew to be a strong student (Wheaton College). With a strong background in education, Furman was recognized for his strong preacher skills and established

Fred Shuttlesworth, was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama.

Nettie Fowler was born in 1835, the youngest of three children. Her father was a merchant in New York. After he died, her mother ran the business until her own death a few years later. Nettie was sent to live with her uncle and grandmother who were both devout Methodists and philanthropists in their community. These early tragedies and relationship with her grandparent’s religion and philanthropy shaped Nettie’s beliefs. Raised as an active member of the Methodist church, she felt her responsibility was to be a servant of God and give back to her community.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered one of the greatest authors of the nineteenth century. He was born a son of a Unitarian minister, and his mother kept boardinghouses. Emerson’s mother was determined to send as many of her children as possible to Harvard to be ministers. Emerson’s aunt became his educator, pushing him to challenge his ideas. Emerson went to and graduated from Harvard, to become a schoolteacher. After studying theology, Emerson began to preach as a Unitarian pastor. Ralph Waldo Emerson then began to believe more in the individual and intuition rather than the church. During this time, 1832,

Jonathan Edwards was one of the most famed evangelical preachers in the Age of the Great Awakening. He is best known for his most impactful sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Edwards preached with fury and conviction of the All Great our God. He preached for the wanderers; those lost in their spiritual belief. Edwards uses a wide variety of figurative language and rhetorical techniques to urge unregenerate Christians to sanctify their lives and walk devoutly before God, using fear. During this time of recognition, renewal and self-reliance in one’s connection with God, Edwards’ sermon did nothing but illustrate the exact conception of the age of the Great Awakening.

Edwards was now in charge of taking his grandfather’s place, being the minister of the largest and wealthiest churches in the entire colony. As a minister, he held to the complementarian outlook of marriage and gender roles, along with all the Reformers and Puritans of his time. He published his first sermon in 1731 entitled God Glorified in the Work of Redemption, by the Greatness of Man’s Dependence upon Him, In the Whole of It. In this sermon, it is clear that Edwards is blaming New England’s incorrect morals on their assumptions of religious and moral self-sufficiency. In the lecture, he discussed many topics. The emphasis being on “God’s absolute sovereignty in the work of salvation: that while it behooved God to create man pure and without sin, it was of his good pleasure and mere and arbitrary grace for him to grant any person the faith necessary to incline him or her toward holiness, and that God might deny this grace without any disparagement to any of his character.” This sermon was Edward’s first public attack on Arminianism. This brought up controversial thoughts, but also helped Edwards in becoming a key figure in the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and

Lyman Beecher was born in New Haven in 1775 and was graduated from Yale divinity School. He was recognized as one of the New England's Leading clergymen.In 1799, he was married to a native women by the name of Roxana Foote, a bright and gentle woman that was talented with needle work. As a Father Lyman Beecher loved having all of his children with him and have good laughs. He also liked playing Scottish tunes and showed his children how to shuffle step. He was very humorous and couldn't act serious even when it came to serious messages. As a minister, he helped built organizations that were known as benevolent empire and gave religion to America. To Lyman Beecher, religious competition and disagreements were only if the end result was protestant

Bob Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, USA as Robert Louis Fosse.

“The Best That Never Was” “The Best That Never Was” is a 30 for 30 documentaries ESPN produced about the life and career of Marcus Dupree. Almost every topic we have discussed in class this semester came together in this documentary. It had everything from racism, eligibility to ethical behavior by everyone involved in sport including agents. I will focus on these three issues in particular because I feel they have the most direct correlation between the film and classroom discussions. I will follow these up with my opinions of the movie and some of the key players.

Carl Rogers was born January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, the fourth of six children. His education started in the second grade because he could already read before kindergarten. He spent his adolescence isolated, independent and self-disciplined. He went to the University of Wisconsin as an agriculture major, but later switched to religion to study for the ministry. He has been quoted as saying “that his new experiences so broadened his thinking that he began to doubt some of his basic religious views.” (Boeree) Carl Rogers later married Ms. Helen Elliot and moved to New York to start school at the Union Theological Seminary, a famous liberal religious institution.