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The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
Volume XIII – 2021

Thus, Fritchman says that from his pulpit of Mann, standing in the same
place where Mann had stood to address his congregation. “Some of you, I am sure,
heard him […] in pulpits including this one…“ He, then, speaks of the continuing

and discreet financial contributions, which Thomas Mann made even from Europe,
“to resist,” as he puts it, “the encroachment of the state upon the freedom of the
church. He gave us all strength and courage, joy and pride in our limited personal
human resources.” Referring to this work, Fritchman adds: “His work will survive
for years to come.”

Literature

Detering, Heinrich, 2012. Thomas Manns amerikanische Religion. Theologie, Politik
und Literatur im kalifornischen Exil. S. Fischer: Frankfurt am Main.
ISBN 978-3-10-014204-7.

64 Unitarianism as “Applied Christianity” Thomas Mann and the Unitarian Church in the USA