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'''David Elton Trueblood''' (December 12, 1900&nbsp;– December 20, 1994), who was usually known as "Elton Trueblood" or "D. Elton Trueblood", was a noted 20th-century [[United States|American]] [[Quaker]] author and [[theologian]], former chaplain both to [[Harvard]] and [[Stanford]] universities.

== Early life and education ==
Elton Trueblood was born December 12, 1900, in Iowa, the fourth of five children, and was graduated from [[William Penn College]] in Iowa in 1922.  He did graduate study at [[Brown University]], [[Hartford Seminary]], and [[Harvard University]] before finishing his PhD at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in Philosophy.<ref>((cite web | url=http://articles.mcall.com/1994-12-25/news/2999389_1_earlham-college-quaker-scholar-reinhold-niebuhr | title=Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, Quaker Scholar, Author | work=The New York Times| date=25 December 1994 | access-date=14 January 2014))</ref>

== Career ==
During his career, Trueblood held faculty and chaplain positions at [[Haverford College]], [[Guilford College]], [[Harvard University]], [[Stanford University]], and [[Earlham College]]. He then settled in the Quaker community of [[Richmond, Indiana]], intending to help spur the growth of [[Earlham College]] from a small regional religious school into a nationally recognized institution of higher learning. He was a founder of the [[Earlham School of Religion]], a Quaker seminary in Richmond, and contributed to a [[History of the Quakers#Twentieth-century developments|renaissance of American Quaker thought]] and action spurred on partly by the common experiences of Quaker [[intellectuals]] as [[conscientious objectors]] during [[World War II]] (although Trueblood himself was not a [[pacifist]]). He actively sought to mentor younger Quakers into his nineties. Trueblood also founded the [[Yokefellow movement]] and supported [[Stephen Ministries]]. His Yokefellow funders included some of his past students, such as [[planned community]] developer Charles Samuel Coble, whom Trueblood taught and also coached in track in the late 1920s at Guilford College.<ref>((cite web | url=http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/nc/guilford/guilford-college-yearbook-quaker-1929.pdf | title=The Quaker 1929 yearbook of Guilford College | access-date=24 October 2017))</ref>

He was a [[political conservative]] who supported Nixon's [[foreign policy]], including the [[Vietnam War]], and gave the [[invocation]] at the [[1972 Republican National Convention]]. Nonetheless, he was known for maintaining an [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalist]] perspective, serving for many years as the permanent representative from the global Quaker community to the [[World Council of Churches]], an organization he helped bring into being. In the 1950s, he served as a senior advisor to President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], who created a post for him as Director of Religious Information at the [[U.S. Information Agency]] (formerly the ''[[Voice of America]]'').  ''Time'' magazine profiled him in this role on March 15, 1954. During the Nixon Administration he again served as an adviser to the President.

== Publications ==
Elton Trueblood wrote 33 books, including: ''The Predicament of Modern Man,'' ''Alternative to Futility'', ''Foundations for Reconstruction,'' ''Signs of Hope,'' ''The Logic of Belief'', ''Philosophy of Religion,'' ''Robert Barclay,'' ''Abraham Lincoln: Theologian of American Anguish,'' ''The Idea of a College,'' ''The People Called Quakers,'' ''The Incendiary Fellowship,'' ''The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience'' (1939 [[Swarthmore Lecture]]), ''A Place to Stand'', ''Your Other Vocation'' and ''The Humor of Christ.''

Trueblood's short book, ''The Predicament of Modern Man,'' received much attention near the end of World War II for the way it addressed a widespread interest in finding spiritual meaning and morality in the face of such extreme suffering during World War II.  In the book he asserted that searching for [[Secular morality|morality without a foundation in religion]] was a futile effort, using the analogy of trying to make cut flowers in a vase live forever.  Elton wrote a shorter version of this basic thesis for Reader's Digest, which generated volumes of mail; he reportedly responded to every letter.((sfn|Newby|1990|p=68))

Some reviewers have considered Trueblood's books, especially ''The Logic of Belief'' and ''Philosophy of Religion'', among his most rigorous intellectual contributions to the field of [[philosophy of religion]].

Trueblood's book on [[Abraham Lincoln]] caught the attention of [[Nancy Reagan]], who talked about it in an interview with ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'' in September 1981. It was reissued in 2012 by Phoenix Press with the title ''Abraham Lincoln: A Spiritual Biography ''.((sfn|Newby|1990|p=152))

Trueblood told several students and reviewers that he sought to provide the general audience with many readable works to promote a depth of religious thought among his readers. One of his final books was an [[autobiography]] titled ''While it is Day'', which traced his personal journey from boyhood in [[Iowa]] and placed his personal history in the context of the history of his family's long connection with Quakerism.

== Friend of Presidents ==
Trueblood became a lifetime friend of President [[Herbert Hoover]], who was also a Quaker.  They first met when Elton was the [[chaplain]] and a faculty member at [[Stanford University]] and Hoover had retired to Palo Alto, California.  They lived near each other and eventually struck up a friendship that lasted for decades.((sfn|Newby|1990|p=53)) When Hoover died in 1964 while Trueblood was traveling in southeast Asia, the State Department flew Trueblood back to the United States to perform the funeral service at the request of Hoover's family.((sfn|Newby|1990|p=126-29))<ref>[[Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum]]</ref>

Trueblood was also friends with Presidents [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Ronald Reagan]].((sfn|Newby|1990|pp=102, 108, 148, 153))

== Family and retirement ==
He had four children (Martin, Arnold, Sam and Elizabeth) with his first wife, Pauline, who died in 1955.  Trueblood was remarried in 1956 to Virginia Zuttermeister in ceremonies held at the [[Washington National Cathedral]].

Trueblood retired from Earlham College in 1966, but lived in Richmond, Indiana, for nearly the rest of his life. For many years he also maintained a summer home on Lake Paupac (((Coord|41|19|28|N|75|15|26|W))), a Quaker retreat in the [[Pocono Mountains]] near Greentown, PA.  He continued to write books and give public speeches in retirement. Trueblood died on December 20, 1994. His obituary was featured in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/23/obituaries/elton-trueblood-94-scholar-who-wrote-theological-works.html | title=Elton Trueblood, 94, Scholar Who Wrote Theological Works | work=The New York Times| date=23 December 1994 | access-date=14 January 2014 | author=Saxon, Wolfgang))</ref>  His cremains are interred at his study, Teague Library, on the campus of Earlham College.

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*Elton Trueblood.  ''While It Is Day: An Autobiography.''  Richmond, IN: Yokefellow Press, 1974.
*((cite book |last=Newby |first=James R. |title=Elton Trueblood: Believer, Teacher and Friend. |location=San Francisco |publisher=Harper and Row |date=1990 ))
*Newby, Elizabeth, ed.  ''A Philosopher's Way: Essays and Addresses of D. Elton Trueblood.''  Nashville: Broadman Press, 1978.
*Newby, James R., ed.  ''Basic Christianity: Addresses of D. Elton Trueblood.''  Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1978.
* ''The Best of Elton Trueblood, An Anthology.''  Nashville: Impact Books, 1978.

== External links ==
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*[http://www.waynet.org/people/biography/trueblood.htm Biography of Elton Trueblood]
*[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1995-02-01/html/CREC-1995-02-01-pt1-PgS1872.htm Text of memorial by U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in the Congressional Record]

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