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PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (18081900) , American Congregational theologian, was born in Providence, Rhode Island
seminary . He was co-pastor (with R. S. Storrs) of the orthodox Congregational church of Braintree in 18311833; professor of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst in 1835; and Bartlett professor of sacred rhetoric (1836-1847), and Abbot professor of Christian theology (18471881) at Andover. He died at Andover on the 4th of June 1900. An ardent admirer of Jonathan Edwards, whose great
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Seminary " (1883), and the anonymously published " Worcester Creed " of 1884 was his popularized and simplified statement. He edited in r86o The Atonement, a collection of essays by various hands, prefaced by his study of the " Rise of the Edwardean Theory of the Atonement." Dr Park's sermon, " The Theology of the Intellect and that of the Feelings," delivered in 185o before the convention of the Congregational ministers of Massachusetts, and published in the Bibliotheca sacra of July 185o,was the cause of a long and bitter controversy, metaphysical rather than doctrinal, with Charles Hodge. Some of Park's sermons were published in 1885, under the title Discourses on Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious Character. With Austin Phelps and Lowell
See Professor Park and His Pupils (Boston, 1899), a memorial of his 90th birthday, with articles by R. S. Storrs, G. R. W. Scott, Joseph Cook, G. Frederick Wright
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