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JOHN MCCLINTOCK (1814-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN MCCLINTOCK (1814-1870)  ,
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American Methodist Episcopal theologian and educationalist, was born in
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Philadelphia on the 27th of
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October 1814 . He graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was assistant professor of mathematics (1836-1837), professor of mathematics (1837-184o), and professor of Latin and Greek (184o-1848) in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania . He opposed the Mexican War and
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slavery, and in 1847 was arrested on the charge of instigating a riot, which resulted in the rescue of several fugitive slaves; his trial, in which he was acquitted, attracted wide attention . In 1848-x856 he edited The Methodist Quarterly Review (after1885 The Methodist Review); from 1857 to 186o he was pastor of St Paul's (Methodist Episcopal) Church, New York City; and in 186o-1864 he had charge of the American
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chapel in Paris, and there and in
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London did much to turn public opinion in favour of the
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Northern States . In 1865-1866 he was chairman of the central committee for the celebration of the centenary of American
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Methodism . He retired from the
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regular
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ministry in 1865, but preached in New Brunswick, New Jersey, until the spring of 1867, and in that
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year, at the wish. of its founder, Daniel Drew, became president of the newly established Drew theological seminary at Madison, New Jersey, where he died on the 4th of March 187o . A
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great preacher, orator and teacher, and a remarkably versatile scholar, McClintock by his editorial and educational
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work probably did more than any other man to raise the intellectual tone of American Methodism, and, particularly, of the American Methodist clergy . He introduced to his denomination the scholarly methods of the new German
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theology of the day—not alone by his
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translation with Charles E . Blumenthal of Neander's
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Life of Christ (1847), and of Bungener's
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History of the Council of Trent (1855), but by his great project, McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature (10 vols., 1867-1881; Supplement, 2 vols., 1885-1887), in the editing of which he was associated with Dr James Strong (1822-1894), professor of exegetical theology in the Drew Theological Seminary from 1868 to 1893, and the
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sole editor of the last six volumes of the Cyclopaedia and of the supplement . With George Richard Crooks (1822-1897), his colleague at Dickinson College and in 188o-1897 professor of
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historical theology at Drew Seminary, McClintock edited several elementary textbooks in Latin and Greek (of which some were republished in
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Spanish), based on the pedagogical principle of " imitation and constant repetition." Among McClintock's other publications are: Sketches of Eminent Methodist Ministers (1863); an edition of Richard Watson's Theological Institutes (1851) ; and The Life and Letters of Rev . Stephen Olin (1854) . See G .

R . Crooks, Life and Letters of the Rev . Dr

John McClintock (New York, 1876) .

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