John Page Hopps
| John Page Hopps | |
|---|---|
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| Born | November 6, 1834 |
| Died | April 6, 1911 |
| Occupation | Unitarian minister, spiritualist |
John Page Hopps (November 6, 1834 - April 6, 1911) was a Unitarian minister and spiritualist.[1][2]
Hopps was born in London. He was educated at the General Baptist College, Leicester. He worked as George Dawson's assistant at the Church of the Saviour, Birmingham and from 1860 to 1876 he ministered to Unitarians.[3] He was a minister at the Unitarian Church in Bath Street, Glasgow.[4] Hopps was a convinced spiritualist and was influenced by William Howitt and C. F. Varley. He had unified his unitarianism with spiritualism by arguing the bible was a record of spirit communication.[1]
In a lecture for the London Spiritualist Alliance, Hopps supported biological evolution and spiritualism.[5]
He created and edited the monthly periodical The Truthseeker (1863-1887).[6] Hopps also edited a spiritualist newspaper Daybreak, which was absorbed into the weekly spiritualist newspaper The Medium and Daybreak of James Burns.[7][8]
Publications
- The Future Life (1884)
- Pilgrim Songs With Other poems Written During Forty Years (1891)
- Who Was Jehovah? (1891)
- Death a Delusion (1895)
References
- 1 2 Watts, Michael R. (2015). The Dissenters: Volume III: The Crisis and Conscience of Nonconformity. Oxford University Press. pp. 37-38. ISBN 978-0198229698
- ↑ John Page Hopps. The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press, accessed December 3, 2016.
- ↑ "John Page Hopps". Hymnary.
- ↑ "John Page Hopps". The Glasgow Story.
- ↑ Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0521347679
- ↑ "John Page Hopps". NetHymnal.
- ↑ Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0521347679
- ↑ Lavoie, Jeffrey D. (2012). The Theosophical Society: The History of a Spiritualist Movement. BrownWalker Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-1612335537