Proceedings Connected with the Semi-Centennial Commemoration of the Professorship of Rev. Charles Hodge

by Princeton Theological Seminary

Publisher:

Anson D. F. Randolph & Company

, 1872

Overview

Commemorating Charles Hodge's fiftieth year of teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, the General Assembly put together a day in his honor and invited former student sand faculty to a day of celebration. This volume includes the addresses given at the celebration, including Hodge's, and the letters from students and faculty members expressing the positive influence Hodge made in their scholastic and spiritual life.

Product Details

• Title: Proceedings Connected with the Semi-Centennial Commemoration of the Professorship of Rev. Charles Hodge
• Author: Princeton Theological Seminary
• Publisher: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company
• Print Publication Date: 1872
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Hodge, Charles, 1797-1878
• Resource ID: LLS:PROCEEDHODGE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:13:04Z

About Princeton Theological Seminary

William Henry Green graduated from Princeton Theological seminary and taught there from 1846–1849, and from 1851 until his death in 1900, becoming chair of Oriental and Old Testament Literature. He is the author of Grammar of the Hebrew Language, The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Bishop Colenso, Moses and the Prophets, The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch and others.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) studied mathematics and science at Princeton University and graduated in 1871. In 1873, he decided to enroll at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was taught by Charles Hodge. Warfield became Professor of Theology at Princeton, where he taught from 1887–1921.

Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr. (1830-1891) was Professor of New Testament Literature and Greek Exegesis in Princeton Theological Seminary. He was the youngest son of Charles Hodge.

Charles Augustus Aiken became the first Archibald Alexander professor of Christian ethics and apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1871. He remained in that position until his death in 1892.

William M. Paxton graduated from Princeton Theological seminary in 1848 and was President of the Princeton faculty in 1900, becoming Professor Emeritus of Homiletics in 1902. Paxton passed away in 1904.

John D. Davis studied at the University of Bonn, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Leipzig. He served as Professor of Hebrew and cognate languages, Semitic philology, and Old Testament at Princeton. Davis was an adherent of the Princeton Theology and represented a conservative response to the higher criticism of the Old Testament. He also served as editor of A Dictionary of the Bible and is the author of Genesis and Semitic Tradition.

Francis L. Patton was the twelfth president of Princeton University and author of The Inspiration of the Scriptures and Summary of Christian Doctrine.

James O. Murray joined the English Department of Princeton University in the mid 1870's. He became the first dean of the faculty and a professorship is named after him.