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See also:GEORGE See also:MATHESON (1842-1906)
, Scottish theologian and preacher, was See also:born in See also:Glasgow in 1842, the son of See also:George See also:Matheson, a See also:merchant
.
He was educated at the university of Glasgow, where he graduated first in See also:classics, See also:logic and See also:philosophy
.
In his twentieth See also:year he became totally See also:blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the See also:ministry, and gave himself
to theological and See also:historical study
.
His first ministry began in 1868 at Innellan, on the See also:Argyllshire See also:coast between See also:Dunoon and Toward
.
His books on See also:Aids to the Study of See also:German See also:Theology, Can the Old Faith live with the New
?
The Growth of the Spirit of See also:Christianity from the First See also:Century to the See also:Dawn of the Lutheran Era, established his reputation as a liberal and spiritually minded theologian; and See also:Queen See also:Victoria invited him to preach at Balmoral
.
In 1886 he removed to See also:Edinburgh, where he became See also:minister of St See also:Bernard's See also:Parish See also: He died suddenly of See also:apoplexy on the 28th of See also:August 1906 . His exegesis owes its See also:interest to his subjective resources rather than to breadth of learning; his See also:power See also:lay in spiritual See also:vision rather than balanced See also:judgment, and in the vivid See also:apprehension of the factors which make the Christian See also:personality, rather than in constructive doctrinal statement . |
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