<p>Horace Bushnell was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian. Bushnell was a Yankee born in the village of Bantam, township of Litchfield, Connecticut.<br><br>He graduated at Yale in 1827, was literary editor of the New York Journal of Commerce from 1828?1829, and in 1829 became a tutor at Yale. Here he initially studied law, but in 1831 he entered the theology department of Yale College.<br><br>In May, 1833 Bushnell was ordained pa...