Christ and criticism; thoughts concerning the relation of Christian faith to Biblical criticism
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Romans Dissected: A Critical Analysis of the Epistle to the Romans (Classic Reprint)
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Doctrine Without either impugning the trustworthiness of Paul or denying that Paul wrote the Epistles in question.
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Charles Marsh Mead was an American clergyman and biblical scholar.
Background
Charles Marsh Mead was born on January 28, 1836 in Cornwall, Vermont. He was the youngest of the nine children of Rufus and Anna (Janes) Mead. His father, a descendant of John Mead who came from England and settled in Greenwich, Conn, about 1650, was a farmer who placed high value on mental training.
Education
Charles completed his preparation for college under his brother Hiram in Flushing Institute, New York, and entered Middlebury College, graduating as valedictorian in 1856. He taught in the classicaldepartment of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachussets, 1856-58, then entered Andover Theological Seminary. He was tutor in Middlebury College, 1859-60, and graduated at Andover Seminary in 1862. He studied in Germany, 1863-66, mainly in Halle and Berlin, taking the degree of doctor of philosophy at Tübingen in 1866.
Career
While in Germany Mead was appointed in 1865 to the Hitchcock professorship of Hebrew in Andover Seminary. Returning to America in 1866, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry, August 10, at Cornwall, Vt. , and in the autumn was inaugurated at Andover. In 1871-72 they spent sixteen months in Europe and the Near East, and made a study of Palestine. Shortly after their return, Mead began serving as a member of the American committee cooperating with the English committee in Bible revision, an undertaking in which he was engaged for nearly thirty years. He resigned the Andover professorship in 1882, and the following ten years were spent abroad with his wife, mainly in studies at Bonn and Berlin. In 1889 he was temporarily in America, lecturing in Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1892 to 1898 he was Riley Professor of Christian Theology in the Hartford (Connecticut) Theological Seminary. For several years thereafter he gave his entire time to Biblical revision. The American committee did not disband, as the English committee had done when their revision was published in 1885, but continued to work on the projected American revision. Mead was the youngest of the American revisers, and an increasingly large share of the labor devolved upon him. He was deputed to go through the Old Testament, making notes and suggestions to be sent to the other members for their votes. He prepared the topical page-headings, a large part of the Scripture references, the preface, and an appendix for the first edition; he also revised the paragraph divisions of the English revision. The readingof the proof of the Old Testament fell to him, an exacting labor by which his health was impaired for several years.
Achievements
Mead's work of Biblical revision, for which he had exceptional equipment, stands probably as his most distinctive service in Christian scholarship.
Mead was of slender physique, with quiet, kindly manner. His learning was extensive, his thought well-balanced, his expression clear, often trenchant, with a vein of subtle humor.
Connections
On August 2, 1867, Mead married Caroline, daughter of Joseph H. and Martha S. Thayer of Boston.