FRANCIS LANDEY

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• FRANCIS LANDEY PATTON (1843- )

PATTON (1843- )  , American educationalist and theologian, was born in Warwick parish, Bermuda, on the 22nd of January 1843 . He studied at Knox College and at the university of Toronto; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865; was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in June 1865; was pastor of the 84th Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, in 1865-1867, of the Presbyterian Church of Nyack, New York, in 1867-187o, of the South Church, Brooklyn, in 1871, and of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago, in 1874-1881; and in 1872-1881 was professor in McCormick Seminary, Chicago . He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1878 . In 1881-1888 he was Stuart professor " of the relation of philosophy and science to the Christian religion " (a chair founded for him) in Princeton Theological Seminary; in 1888-1902 he was president of the College of New Jersey, which in 1896 became Princeton University; in 1902 he became president of Princeton Theological Seminary . He brought charges of heresy in 1874 against David Swing, and was prosecuting attorney at Swing's trial . In 1881 and 1892 he was one of the opponents of Dr Charles A . Briggs at the time of the Briggs heresy case . Dr Patton was an opponent of the revision of the Confession of Faith . He was editor, with Dr Briggs, of the Presbyterian Review, in i88o-1888 . He wrote The Inspiration of the Scriptures (1869), and Summary of Christian Doctrine (1874) .