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ROBERT FLINT (1838- )
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FLINT, ROBERT (1838- ), Scottish divine and philosopher, was born near Dumfries and educated: at the university of Glasgow. After a few years of pastoral service, first in Aberdeen and then at Kilconquhar, Fife, he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and political economy at St Andrews in 1864. From 1876 to 1903 he was professor of divinity at Edinburgh. Ile contributed a number of articles to, the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His chief works are Christ's Kingdom upon Earth (Sermons, 1865); Philosophy of History in Europe (1874; partly rewritten with reference to France and Switzerland, 1844); Theism and Anti-theistic Theories (2 vols., being the Baird Lectures for. 1876-1877; often reprinted); Socialism (1894); Sermons and Addresses (1899); Agnosticism (1903).