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HENRY BOYNTON SMITH (1815-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY BOYNTON See also:SMITH (1815-1877)  , See also:American theologian, was See also:born in See also:Portland, See also:Maine, on the 21st of See also:November 1815 . He graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 1834; studied See also:theology at See also:Andover, where his See also:health failed, at See also:Bangor, and, after a See also:year (1836-1837) as librarian and See also:tutor in See also:Greek at Bowdoin, in See also:Germany at See also:Halle, where he became personally intimate with See also:Tholuck and See also:Ulrici, and in See also:Berlin, under See also:Neander and See also:Hengstenberg . He returned to See also:America in 1840, was a tutor for a few months (1840-1841) at Bowdoin, and in 1842, shut out from any better See also:place by distrust of his See also:German training and by his See also:frank opposition to See also:Unitarianism, he became pastor of the Congregational See also:Church of See also:West See also:Amesbury (now See also:Merrimac), See also:Massachusetts . In 1847-1850 he was See also:professor of moral See also:philo- sophy and See also:metaphysics at See also:Amherst; and in 1850-1854 was Washburh professor of Church See also:history, and in 1854-1874 See also:Roosevelt professor of systematic theology, at See also:Union Theological See also:Seminary . His health failed in 1874 and he died in New See also:York See also:City on the 7th of See also:February 1877 . Of the old school of the " New See also:England Theology," See also:Smith was one of the foremost leaders of the new school Presbyterians . His theology is most strikingly contained in the Andover address, " Relations of Faith and See also:Philosophy," which was delivered before the See also:Porter Rhetorical Society in 1849 . He always made it clear that the ideal philosophy was Christocentric: he said that Reformed theology must " `Christologize ' See also:predestination and decrees, regeneration and sanctification, the See also:doctrine of the Church, and the whole of the See also:Eschatology." His son See also:HENRY See also:GOODwIN SMITH (b . 186o) was pastor of the See also:Freehold (New See also:Jersey) Presbyterian Church in 1886-1896, and from 1897 to 1903 was professor of systematic theology in See also:Lane Theological Seminary . . From notes of his lectures, See also:William S . See also:Karr prepared two volumes of Dr Smith's theological writings, Introduction to See also:Christian Theology (1883) and See also:System of Christian Theology (1884) . Dr Smith contributed articles on See also:Calvin, See also:Kant, See also:Pantheism, Miracles, Reformed Churches, See also:Schelling and See also:Hegel to the American Cyclopaedia, and contributed to See also:McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia; and was editor of the American Theological See also:Review (1859 sqq.), both in its See also:original See also:form and after it became the American Presbyterian and Theological Review and, later, the Presbyterian Quarterly and See also:Prince-ton Review .

See E . L . (Mrs H . B.) Smith, Henry Boynton Smith, His See also:

Life and See also:Works (New York, 1881), and See also:Lewis F . Stearns, Henry Boynton Smith (See also:Boston, 1892), in the American Religious Leaders See also:series .

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