Henry Truro Bray

Thomas Henry Truro Bray LL.D. (December 16, 1846 – October 23, 1922) was an English-American priest, philosopher and physician.

Biography Bray was born in Truro, England. He moved to America in 1863. He was educated at Northwestern University. He obtained his B.A. (1875) and M.A. (1878) from Victoria University, Toronto, his L.L.B (1883) from University of Michigan and M.D. (1902) from Hahnemann Medical College. Bray denied that Christ was an essential part of faith, denied eternal punishment and disputed the resurrection of the dead. He practiced medicine in Chicago and was a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He stated that "there is an infinite intelligence whom we call God; man is by nature a religious being; every religion has in it a nucleus of truth; no religion is exclusively true, or founded upon an exclusively divine revelation." In his later works such as his book The Living Universe, Bray defended philosophical theism.

He married several times, to Agnes Lewarne in 1875, to Mabel Summy in 1878 and May Wormald in 1888.

Selected publications

The Knowability of God (1887) Essays on God and Man (1888) The Evolution of a Life (1890) Reason and Dogma (1894) The Living Universe (1910, 1920) The Voice of the Universe (1917)