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CHARLES HODGE (1797-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 557 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . Meanwhile, in 1821, he had been ordained as a Presbyterian See also:minister . 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 . 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 he held until his See also:death . 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 . 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 . He secured for it the position of theological See also:organ of the Old School See also:division of the Presbyterian See also:church, and continued its See also:principal editor and contributor until 1868, when the Rev . Lyman H . Atwater became his colleague . His more important essays were republished under the titles Essays and Reviews 55"i (1857), Princeton Theological Essays, and Discussions in Church Polity (1878) . 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 .

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 . He died at Princeton on the 19th of See also:June 1878 . See also:Hodge was one of the greatest of American theologians . 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 . 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 ? (1874), in which he opposed " Atheistic Evolutionism." After his death a See also:volume of See also:Conference Papers (1879) was published . His life, by his son, was published in 1880 . 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 . He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1841, and at the Princeton Theological seminary in 1846, and was ordained in 1847 . 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) . 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) . In 1878 he succeeded his See also:father as professor of didactic theology at the Princeton seminary .

He died on the 11th of See also:

November 1886 . Besides See also:writing the See also:biography of his father, he was the author of Outlines of Theology (186o, new ed . 1875; enlarged, 1879); The See also:Atonement (1867); Exposition of the See also:Confession of Faith (1869); and Popular Lectures on Theological Themes (1887) . See C . A . Salmond's See also:Charles and A . A . Hodge (New York, 1888) .

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