Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Excerpted from:Baptist; b. at Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1836. He was educated at Yale (A.B., 1857 and at Rochester Theological Seminary (graduated 1859), completing his education in Germany in 1859-60. He then held pastorates at the First Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass. (1861-65), and at the First Baptist Church, Cleveland, O. (1865-72; became professor of systematic theology and president of Rochester Theological Seminary 1872); resigned presidency in 1912. He has written Systematic Theology (Rochester, 1886); Philosophy and Religion (New York, 1888); The Great Poets and their Theology (Philadelphia, 1897); Christ in Creation and Ethical Monism (1809); Systematic Theology (3 vols., 1907-09); and Outlines of Systematic Theology (1908).