BRIGGS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS (1841 )

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BRIGGS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS (1841 ) , American Hebrew scholar and theologian, was born in New

York

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- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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City on the 15th of January 1841. He was educated at the university of Virginia (1857186o), graduated at the Union Theological Seminary in 1863, and studied further at the university of Berlin. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church of Roselle, New

Jersey

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JERSEY, EARLS OF

, 18691874, and professor of Hebrew and cognate languages in Union Theological Seminary 18741891, and of Biblical theology there from 1891 to 1904, when he became professor of theological encyclopaedia and symbolics. From 188o to 1890 he was an editor of the Presbyterian Review. In 1892 he was tried for heresy by the presbytery of New

York

and acquitted. The charges were based upon his inaugural address of the preceding year. In brief they were as follows: that he had taught that reason and the Church are each a " fountain of divine authority which apart from Holy Scripture may and does savingly enlighten men "; that " errors may have existed in the

original

ORIGINAL

text of the Holy Scripture "; that " many of the Old Testament predictions have been reversed by history
and that " the great

body

BODY

of Messianic prediction has not and can-not be fulfilled "; that " Moses is not the author of the Pentateuch," and that " Isaiah is not the author of half of the book which bears his name "; that " the processes of redemption extend to the world to come "he had considered it a fault of Protestant theology that it limits redemption to this worldand that" sanctification is not complete at death." The general assembly, to which the case was appealed, suspended Dr Briggs
in 1893, being influenced, it would seem, in part, by the manner and tone of his expressionsby what his own colleagues in the Union Theological Seminary called the " dogmatic and irritating " nature of his inaugural address. He was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1899. His scholarship procured for him the honorary degree of D.D. from Edinburgh (1884) and from Glasgow (19o1), and that of Litt: D, from Oxford (19ot). With S. R. Driver and Francis Brown he prepared. a revised Hebrew and English Lexicon (18911905), and with Driver edited the " International Commentary

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

." His publications include Biblical Study: Its Principles, Methods and History (1883) ; Hebrew Poems of the Creation 0884); American Presbyterianism: Its Origin and Early History (1885) ; Messianic Prophecy (1886); Whither? A Theological Question for the Times (1889); The Authority of the Holy Scripture (1891); The Bible, the Church and the Reason (1892) ; The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch (1893); The Messiah of the Gospels (1894); The Messiah of the Apostles (1894); New Light on the Life of Jesus (1904); The Ethical Teaching of Jesus (1904); A

Critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms (2 vols., 19061907), in which he was assisted by his daughter; and The Virgin Birth of Our Lord (1909).

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