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American Theists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
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The problem of the existence and nature of God, remote and oppressive though it is to some minds, to others is of all questions the most urgent and engaging. It has had its fascination for the mind of America, as for that of all intelligent peoples.
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1 Professor Caldecott terms him “the most confident intuitionalist I can find since Herbert.” Philosophy of Religion, p. 99.
2 Views of Religion, p. 100.
3 The Theistic Argument, p. 64.
4 Ibid., p. 78.
5 Ibid., p. 79.
6 Ibid., p. 317.
7 Elisha Mulford was born in Montrose, Pa., in 1833, and died in Cambridge, Mass, in 1885. Like Diman he was a student of philosophy. He graduated at Yale College, studied at Union and Andover Seminaries, and at Halle and Heidelberg Universities, was ordained as an Episcopal minister and served several parishes. In 1881 he removed to Cambridge and delivered courses of lectures on theology at the Episcopal Divinity School.
8 See his article on Elisha Mulford in the Atlantic Monthly, lvii, 362.
9 Republic of God, p. 1.
10 Ibid., pp. 22–23 (first edition).
11 A biographical sketch of Dr. Mulford and his work, by Dr. T. T. Munger, may be found in The Century Magazine, xiii, 888.
12 Samuel Harris came of a Maine family, and was born in East Machias, June 14, 1814. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1833 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1838. He was a Congregational pastor until 1855, when he became professor of Systematic Theology in Bangor Theological Seminary. In 1867 he was called to the presidency of Bowdoin College, and in 1871 became Dwight Professor of Systematic Theology in the Yale Divinity School, continuing in this office until he was made professor emeritus in 1896. His death occurred in 1899. His portrait, together with those of Dr. C. C. Everett, H. B. Smith, and other Maine theologians, may be found in an article by Cole, W. I., ‘Maine in Literature,’ New England Magazine, August 1890.Google Scholar
13 Philosophical Basis of Theism, p. 22.
14 Part I, Book i, Section iv.
15 Op. cit., p. 130.
16 Ibid., p. 131.
17 Ibid., p. 181.
18 Ibid., p. 181.
19 Ibid., p. 288.
20 Ibid., p. 408.
21 Ibid., pp. 560, 561.
22 Fiske, John: Life and Letters. By Clark, John Spencer. 2 vols. (1917).Google Scholar
23 Op. cit., ii, 264.
24 The Idea of God, Preface, p. xxix.
25 Ibid., p. xxx.
26 Ibid., pp. 166,167.
27 Vol. v, pp. 98–102.
28 The Idea of God, p. 161.
29 Page 209.
30 Dean W. W. Fenn of the Harvard Divinity Faculty has made a valuable summary and evaluation of Professor Everett's theology in The Harvard Theological Review, vol. iii, 1–23.
31 Charles Carroll Everett was born in Brunswick, Me., June 19, 1829. He graduated from Bowdoin College, and studied at Berlin University, Germany. He was librarian of Bowdoin College Library for five years, and professor of Modern Languages, 1855–57. In 1869 he joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School and from 1879 until his death in 1900 was Dean of the School.
32 See W. W. Fenn, l. c., p. 20.
33 Theism and the Christian Faith, p. 51.
34 Ibid., p. 246.
35 Ibid., p. 60.
36 Ibid., p. 61.
37 Ibid., chap. vii.
38 See The Personalist, vol. i, No. 1, pp. 27 ff. Professor Borden P. Bowne's Theism and Personalism have been omitted from this discussion for the reason that I hope to discuss them at length in a volume upon American Philosophy.
39 See The Harvard Theological Review, viii (1915), 219–237.Google Scholar
40 See Progressive Religious Life in America, chap. iii.
41 Belief in God, pp. 260, 261.
42 At the time this volume was published, Doctor Rogers was professor of Philosophy in Butler College. Since 1918 he has been professor of Philosophy in Yale University.
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