Forrester Church

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For Frank Forrester Church III, the former United States Senator, see Frank Church.

Frank Forrester Church IV (born September 23, 1948 in Palo Alto, California) is a leading Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian. He is senior minister of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City.

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Church was born in Palo Alto while his father, then-future United States Senator Frank Church, was a student at Stanford Law School. He was raised in Boise, Idaho, after his father's graduation.

Church is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. He received a Ph.D. in early church history from Harvard University in 1978.

Church is best known as a leader of liberal religion. He has written or edited more than 20 books since 1985. These include technical studies of Christian and Gnostic literature, as well as over a dozen books addressing a wider audience.

Church's books include:

Father and Son: A Personal Biography of Senator Frank Church of Idaho
The trilogy A Humane Comedy: The Devil and Dr. Church, Entertaining Angels, and The Seven Deadly Virtues
Early Christian Prayer
Early Christian Hymns
The Essential Tillich
God and Other Famous Liberals: Recapturing Bible, Flag, and Family from the Far Right
A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism, with John A. Buehrens, Beacon Press, 1998 (revised), ISBN 0807016160 (hardcover), ISBN 0-8070-1617-9 (paperback)