Borden Parker Bowne[a] (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian.
Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leonardville in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
[18] Bowne was an acute critic of mechanistic determinism,[15] positivism, and naturalism.
There has also been a more general influence, as with Martin Luther King Jr., who studied at Boston University, and spoke in his Stride Toward Freedom of having gained "a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
"[22] Bowne received nine nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature between 1906 and 1909—one from his own sister.