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GEORGE PARK FISHER (1827-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 427 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:PARK See also:FISHER (1827-1909)  , See also:American theologian, was See also:born at Wrentham, See also:Massachusetts, on the loth of See also:August 1827 . He graduated at See also:Brown University in 1847, and at the See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1851, spent three years in study in See also:Germany, was See also:college preacher and See also:professor of divinity at Yale College in 1854–1861, and was See also:Titus See also:Street professor of ecclesiastical See also:history in the Yale Divinity School in 1861-1901, when he was made professor See also:emeritus . He was See also:president of the American See also:Historical Association in 1897–1898 . His writings have given him high See also:rank as an authority on ecclesiastical history . They include Essays on the Supernatural Origin of See also:Christianity (1865); History of the See also:Reformation (1873), republished in several revisions; The Beginnings of Christianity (1877); Discussions in History and See also:Theology (188o); Outlines of Universal History (1886); History of the See also:Christian See also:Church (1887); The Nature and Method of See also:Revelation (189o); See also:Manual of Natural Theology (1893); A History of Christian See also:Doctrine, in the "" See also:International Theological Library " (1896) ; and A• Brief History of Nations (1896) . He died on the loth of See also:December 1909 .

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