Albert Cornelius Knudson

Background

Albert Cornelius Knudson was born in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. He was the son of Review Asle Knudson (1844-1939) and Synnove (Fosse) Knudsen (1842-1916), both of whom were immigrants from Norway.

Education

Albert Knudson studied at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Bachelor of Arts 1893) and Boston University (STB 1896, Doctor of Philosophy 1900).

Career

The family subsequently moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota. Rev Asle Knudson regularly traveled by train to Grand Meadow to minister at the Danish-Norwegian Methodist Church until shortly before his death in 1939. He attended Jena University and Berlin University (honorary Doctor of Theology 1923).

After teaching briefly at the University of Denver and Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas and at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, he began his long career in Boston University where he later became became dean of the Boston University School of Theology.

Works

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  • Doctrine of Redemption
  • The validity of religious experience (The Fondren lectures)
  • The Validity of Religious Experience - The Fondgren Lectures
  • The philosophy of personalism: A study in the metaphysics of religion
  • The Principles of Christian Ethics

Views

Brightman, Edgar Sheffield (1979) Personalism in Theology: a Symposium in Honor of Albert Cornelius Knudson by Associates and Former Students (New York: American Mathematical Society Press reprint of the 1943 ed published by Boston University Press).

Connections

Father:

Asle Knudson

Mother:

Susan (Fosse) Knudson

Spouse:

Mathilde Johnson