Rev. Horace Bushnell - Hartford, CT - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

A 6' diameter relief sculpture featuring the head and upper chest of Congregational minister and theologian Horace Bushnell was created by Carl H. Conrads and installed on the east façade of the State Capitol building around 1885. The third the left of six marble, roundel, sculptures depicts a bearded Horace Bushnell wearing a jacket, shirt and bow tie, in bas relief, and his head in high relief inside a recessed circle. The inscription HORACE BUSHNELL frames his head.

Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, CT on April 14, 1802. He graduated Yale College and was ordained in 1833. He became pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford, CT. A well known preacher he espoused views contrary to the Calvinistic orthodoxy of his day. He criticized prevailing conceptions of the Trinity, the atonement, conversion, and the relations of the natural and the supernatural.

Wikipedia list the following books written by him establishing his theological convictions.

Views of Christian Nurture, and of Subjects Adjacent Thereto (1847)

God in Christ: Three Discourses Delivered at New Haven, Cambridge, & Andover (1849)

Sermons for the New Life (1858)

Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God (1858),

Parting Words: A Discourse Delivered in the North Church, Hartford (1859)

The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation (1866)

Sermons on Living Subjects (1872)

Forgiveness and Law: Grounded in Principles Interpreted by Human Analogies (1874)

Horace Bushnell, Selected Writings on Language, Religion, and American Culture (1944)

Horace Bushnell: Sermons (1985)

His greatest secular achievement was his work in securing the land and establishing the first public park in the United States. It was later named Bushnell Park by the City of Hartford.