Andrews Norton

Andrews Norton (December 31, 1786 – September 18, 1853) was an American preacher and theologian.

In his early career, Andrews Norton helped to establish liberal Unitarianism in New England, and stridently opposed harshly conservative Calvinism and Trinitarianism.

As a vocal and well-published theologian, he earned from some the joking title of "the Unitarian Pope".

[2] He was named Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Criticism in 1813, and in 1819, Harvard made him the first Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, a position he held until 1830; he also served as Harvard College Librarian from 1813 to 1821.

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Andrews Norton attacks Transcendentalism in a caricature by Christopher Pearse Cranch , c. 1836–1838