SHEDD, WILLIAM GREENOUGH THAYER (18201894)

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SHEDD, WILLIAM GREENOUGH THAYER (18201894) , American Presbyterian, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, on
the 21st of June 182o. In 1839 he graduated at the University of

Vermont

VERMONT

, and in 1843 at Andover Theological

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

. After a short pastorate at Brandon,

Vermont

VERMONT

, he was successively professor of English literature in the University of Vermont (18451852), professor of sacred rhetoric in Auburn Theological

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

(18521854), professor of church history in Andover Theological Seminary (18541862), and, after-one year (18621863) as associate pastor of the Brick Church of New

York

YORK
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  Gothic
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  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City, of sacred literature (18631874) and of systematic theology (1874189o) in Union Theological Seminary. He died in New

York

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HOUSE
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  Gothic
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OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

City on the 17th of November 1894.
Dr Shedd was a high Calvinist and was one of the greatest systematic theologians of the American Presbyterian church. His

great

GREAT

work

WORK

was Dogmatic Theology (3 vols., 1888-1894). He also wrote Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1856), in which he applied to history the doctrine of organic evolution; Discourses and Essays (1856) ; A

Manual

MANUAL

of Church History (2 vols., 1857), a translation of Guericke; A History of Christian Doctrine (2 vols., 1863); Theological Essays (1877) ; Literary Essays (1878) ; Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1879); The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1885); and he edited Coleridge's Complete Works (7 vols., New York, 1894).

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