See also:CHARLES See also:HODGE (1797-1878)
, See also:American theologian, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 28th of See also:December 1797
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He graduated at the See also:College of New See also:Jersey (now See also:Princeton) in 1815, and in 1819 at the Princeton Theological See also:seminary, where he became an instructor in 182o, and the first See also:professor of See also:Oriental and Biblical literature in 1822
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Meanwhile, in 1821, he had been ordained as a Presbyterian See also:minister
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From 1826 to 1828 he studied under de Sacy in See also:Paris, under Gesenius and See also:Tholuck in See also:Halle, and under See also:Hengstenberg, See also:Neander and-See also:Humboldt in See also:Berlin
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In 1840 he was transferred to the See also:chair of exegetical and didactic See also:theology, to which subjects that of polemic theology was added in 1854, and this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he held until his See also:death
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In 1825 he established the quarterly Biblical Repertory, the See also:title of which was changed to Biblical Repertory and Theological See also:Review in 1830 and to Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review in 1837
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With it, in 184o, was merged the See also:Literary and Theological Review of New See also:York, and in 1872 the American Presbyterian Review of New York, the title becoming Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review in 1872 and Princeton Review in 1877
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He secured for it the position of theological See also:organ of the Old School See also:division of the Presbyterian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and continued its See also:principal editor and contributor until 1868, when the Rev
.
Lyman H
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Atwater became his colleague
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His more important essays were republished under the titles Essays and Reviews
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(1857), Princeton Theological Essays, and Discussions in Church Polity (1878)
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He was See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly (O.S.) in 1846, a member of the See also:committee to revise the See also:Book of Discipline of the Presbyterian church in 1858, and See also:president of the Presbyterian See also:Board of See also:Foreign See also:Missions in 1868-187o
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The 24th of See also:April 1872, the fiftieth anniversary of his See also:election to his professorship, was observed in Princeton as his See also:jubilee by between 400 and 500 representatives of his 2700 pupils, and $50,000 was raised for the endowment of his chair
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He died at Princeton on the 19th of See also:June 1878
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See also:Hodge was one of the greatest of American theologians
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Besides his articles in the Princeton Review, he published a Commentary on the See also:Epistle to the See also:Romans (1835, abridged 1836, rewritten and enlarged 1864, new ed
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1886), Constitutional See also:History of the Presbyterian Church in the See also:United States (2 vols., 1839-1840) ; The Way of See also:Life (1841); Commentaries on See also:Ephesians (1856); 1 See also:Corinthians (18J7); 2 Corinthians (1859); Systematic Theology (3 vols., 2200 pp., 1871-1873), probably the best of all See also:modern ex-positions of Calvinistic dogmatic; and What is Darwinism
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(1874), in which he opposed " Atheistic Evolutionism." After his death a See also:volume of See also:Conference Papers (1879) was published
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His life, by his son, was published in 1880
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His son, See also:ARCHIBALD See also:ALEXANDER HODGE (1823-1886), also famous as a Presbyterian theologian, was born at Princeton on the 18th of See also:July 1823
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He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1841, and at the Princeton Theological seminary in 1846, and was ordained in 1847
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From 1847 to 185o he was a missionary at See also:Allahabad, See also:India, and was then pastor of churches successively at See also:Lower See also:West See also:Nottingham, See also:Maryland (1851-1855); at Fredericksburg, See also:Virginia (1855-1861), and at Wilkes-See also:Barre, Pennsylvania (1861-1864)
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From 1864 to 1877 he was professor of didactic and polemical theology in the See also:Allegheny Theological seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he was also from 1866 to 1877 pastor of the See also:North Church (Presbyterian)
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In 1878 he succeeded his See also:father as professor of didactic theology at the Princeton seminary
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He died on the 11th of See also:November 1886
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Besides See also:writing the See also:biography of his father, he was the author of Outlines of Theology (186o, new ed
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1875; enlarged, 1879); The See also:Atonement (1867); Exposition of the See also:Confession of Faith (1869); and Popular Lectures on Theological Themes (1887)
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See C
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Salmond's See also:Charles and A
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A
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Hodge (New York, 1888)
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