FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW MARTIN (1838- )

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FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW MARTIN (1838- ) , British Non-conformist divine, was born near Edinburgh on the 4th of November 1838. He was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, and at the Evangelical Union Theological

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in Glasgow. He entered the Congregational ministry and held pastorates at Bathgate, West

Lothian

LOTHIAN

and at Aberdeen. From 1877 to 1886 he was

principal

PRINCIPAL

of Airedale College, Bradford, a post which he gave up to become the first

principal

PRINCIPAL

of Mansfield College,

Oxford

. In the transference to

Oxford

under that name of

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Hill College,

Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM

, he took a considerable part, and he has exercised influence not only over generations of his own students, but also over a large number of undergraduates in the university generally. He was granted the degree of M.A. by a decree of Convocation, and in 1903 received the honorary degree of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of literature. He was also given the degrees of

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of divinity of Edinburgh and Yale, and doctor of

laws

LAWS

of Aberdeen. His activities were not limited to his college

work

WORK

. He delivered the Muir lectures at Edinburgh University (1878-1882), the

Gifford

lectures at Aberdeen (1892-1894), the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale (1891-1892), and the Haskell lectures in India (1898-1899). He was a member of the Royal Commission of Secondary Education in 1894-1895, and of the Royal Commission on the Endowments of the Welsh Church in 1906. In 1883 he was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. He is a prolific writer on theological subjects. He resigned his position at Mansfield College in the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

of 1909.
Among his works are :Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History (1876); Studies in the Life of Christ (1881); Religion in History and in Modern Life (1884; rev. 1893); Christ in Modern Theology (1893); Christ in the Centuries (1893); Catholicism Roman and Anglican (1899) ; Philosophy of the Christian Religion (1902) ; Studies in Religion and Theology (1909).

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