| var s_account="msnportalencartaau"; Print Conway, Moncure Daniel Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907), American clergyman and author, who had a great interest in transcendentalist philosophy. Conway was born in Stafford County, Virginia. He was educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1849. He then spent several years in the Methodist ministry. Conway later subscribed to Unitarianism after studying the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and leader in the philosophy of transcendentalism, a belief that had a great influence on the American Unitarian movement. Conway then studied to be a minister in the Unitarian Church at Harvard Divinity School from 1853 to 1854. While serving successive pastorates in Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati, Ohio, Conway began to contribute to the antislavery and reform press, and from 1860 to 1861 he edited The Dial , a transcendentalist periodical. Conway moved to England during the American Civil War. He became the pastor of a liberal London church in 1864, where he combined preaching and writing. There, both his theological and social views became increasingly radical. Conway returned to the United States from 1884 to 1892 and again after 1897, but he frequently visited Europe as well. Conway was the author of more than 70 works, but he is best known for his | |
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