Dr Charles Francis Potter (1885-1962) was an American Unitarian minister, theologian and author.
In 1923 and 1924, he became nationally known through a series of debates with Dr. John Roach Straton, a fundamentalist Christian. The subjects, which Dr. Potter called "part of a crisis in theology," were the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity of Christ and the Second Coming
Read more about Charles Francis Potter: Scopes Trial, Education, Humanism, Humanism As Religion, Published Works
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