Background
Moore, Edward Caldwell was born on September 1, 1857 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Eves (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Harriet Francina (Foot) M.
Moore, Edward Caldwell was born on September 1, 1857 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Eves (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Harriet Francina (Foot) M.
Bachelor of Arts, Marietta College, 1877. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1884. University of Berlin, Göttingen and Giessen, 1884-1886.
Doctor of Philosophy., Brown U., 1891. Doctor of Divinity, Yale, 1909. Doctor of Laws, Grinnell College, 1920.
D.Th., University of Giessen, 1926.
Was ordained to Presbyterian ministry, 1884. Pastor Yonkers, New York, 1886-1889, Central Congressional Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1889-1901. Parkman professor theology, 1901-1929, Plummer professor Christian morals, 1915-1929, Harvard, now emeritus.
Preacher to the university and chairman Board of Preachers, 1905-1928. Lecturer Mansfield College, Oxford, England, 1894 and 1913, Andover Theological Seminary, 1900, Yale Division School, 1906, Lowell Institute, Boston, 1903.
Author: The New Testament in the Christian Church, 1904. History of Christian Thought Since Kant, 1912. The Spread of Christianity in the Modern World, 1919.West and East, 1919
The Nature of Religion, 1936. Editor (with A. T. Davison), The Harvard University Hymn Book, 1925.
Member Prudential Committee American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1899-1914 (chairman 1905-1914. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American History Association, Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Member American Common for Relief in Near East, 1919.
Married Eliza Coe Brown, November 9, 1887. Children: Dorothea May, John Crosby Brown, Elizabeth Ripley.