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Peter J. Gomes

1942–2011

United States

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Peter John Gomes (May 22, 1942 – February 28, 2011) was an American Mainline Protestant preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church — in the words of Harvard's president "one of the great preachers of our generation, and a living symbol of courage and conviction."

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