Stanton Coit

Stanton Coit

Stanton Coit (1857-1944) was an American leader in the Ethical Culture movement, especially in England.

He was born in Columbus, Ohio; studied at Amherst, at Columbia, and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he took the degree of Ph.D..

He was head worker of the New York University Settlement, and became an aide of Felix Adler in the Society for Ethical Culture. In 1888, he went to London as minister of the South Place Ethical Society.

He became president of the West London Ethical Society, preached in the Queen's Road (Bayswater) Ethical Church, and in 1910, was a Labour Party candidate for the Parliament of the United Kingdom from Wakefield.

He was editor of the "International Journal of Ethics" in 1893-1905, and compiled "The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures" (1902), an "Ethical Hymn Book" (1905), "Responsive Services" (1911), and "Social Worship" (1913), and wrote translations of Gizycki's works on ethics. He published:
* "Die ethische Bewegung in der Religion" (1890)
* "National Idealism and a State Church" (1907)
* "National Idealism and the Book of Common Prayer" (1908)
* "Woman in Church and State" (1910)
* "The Soul of America" (1913)


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