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Thomas Whittemore (January 1, 1800 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 21, 1861) was an influential member of the Universalist Church of America and founder and editor of ''The Trumpet and Universalist'' magazine, which succeeded the ''Universalist'' magazine of Hosea Ballou in 1828.〔Paul Finkelman ''Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century'' 2001 "Thomas Whittemore (1800-1861) Whittemore was one of Universalism's most ardent defenders and the editor of Trumpet and Universalist'"〕〔(UUA org bio )〕 Like Ballou and Ballou's grand-nephew, Hosea Ballou 2nd, first president of Tufts College, Whittemore contributed to Universalist historiography by identifying precedents for Universalist beliefs in earlier Christianity.〔Whittemore, ''The early days of Thomas Whittemore: An Autobiography'' "extended through nine years; edited in the first two volumes by Rev. Hosea Ballou; in a part of the second, and up to the end of the seventh volume, by Hosea Ballou, Hosea Ballou, 2d, and Thomas Whittemore"〕 With Thomas J. Sawyer of New York, he co-founded the Universalist Historical Society in 1834.〔Russell E. Miller ''The larger hope: the first century of the Universalist Church in 1979 "became the Universalist Historical Society in 1834 was shared by Thomas J. Sawyer of New York, and Thomas Whittemore, editor of the Trumpet in Boston. According to Whittemore, it was Sawyer who originally conceived the idea.〕 These histories were influential in bringing many readers to regard the Christians of the first centuries as Universalists.〔George Huntston Williams ''American universalism: a bicentennial historical essay'' (1976), p 94〕 == Massachusetts Legislature== From 1831-1836, Whittemore served as Cambridge's representative in the Massachusetts legislature, serving as chair of the committee that oversaw the disestablishment of the Congregational Church and Unitarian Church, to whose special status Whittemore was opposed, from the privileged position they had been accorded in the Massachusetts Constitution. Whittmore held that "no civil government has a right to compel the citizens to support any system of religion whatsoever" and supported calls for a popular referendum on the separation of church and state in 1834. The results of that referendum brought Massachusetts into accord with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.〔Alan Seaburg, Thomas Dahill ''Cambridge on the Charles'' (2001), p. 26〕〔''The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History'' Vol. 1, ed. Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, Adam Rothman (2009), "Disestablishment of the Congregationalist churches in Massachusetts"〕〔Stephen Higginson Clark ''The Politics of Disestablishment in Massachusetts, 1820-1833'' (1965)〕 He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. His papers are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Whittemore (Universalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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