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

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John McClintock (New York, 1876) .

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