Shedd, William Greenough Thayer

Presbyterian; b. at Acton, Mass., June 21, 1820; d. at New York Nov. 17, 1894. He was graduated from the University of Vermont, 1839; and from Andover Theological Seminary, 1843; became Congregational pastor at Brandon, Vt., 1844; professor of sacred rhetoric in Auburn (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary, 1852; of church history in Andover (Congregational) Theological Seminary, 1853; associated pastor of the Brick (Presbyterian) Church, in Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1863-74; and of systematic theology, 1874-90, where he was known for the rigid logic and close compactness of his system, embodied in his Dogmatic Theology (vols. i-ii., Worcester, 1889; vol. iii., New York, 1894) He translated from the German of Francis Theremin, Eloquence a Virtue (New York, 1850), and H. E. F. Guericke’s Manual of Church History (2 vols., Andover, 1860-70); and wrote A History of Christian Doctrine (2 vols., New York, 1865); Homiletics and Pastoral Theology (1867); Sermons to the Natural Man (1871); Theological Essays (1877); Commentary on Romans (1879); Sermons to the Spiritual Man (1884); The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1886); and Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (New York, 1893)

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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge