Day: June 22, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: “Of what athority E. esteems this mutalated gospel?”

Theological disagreements between family members are not a new phenomenon, as evidenced in this week’s letter. Few families, however, contain one of the most prominent religious and philosophical thinkers of the last two centuries, a student of the founder of “higher criticism” and a self-taught woman who defied rigid theological and societal definition. Mary Moody…