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He was born on August 24, 1829 in Brunswick, Maine, United States, the son of William Smyth, professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and Harriet Porter (Coffin); Newman Smyth was a brother.
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He was born on August 24, 1829 in Brunswick, Maine, United States, the son of William Smyth, professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and Harriet Porter (Coffin); Newman Smyth was a brother.
Egbert attended Dummer Academy at Byfield, Massachussets, and was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1848. He was graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1853. The year following he studied theology at Andover.
Smyth taught at Farmington, 1848-49, was tutor in Greek at Bowdoin, 1849-51. From 1855 he was professor of rhetoric and oratory at Bowdoin.
He was ordained at Brunswick on July 22, 1856, and served as Collins Professor of Natural and Revealed Religion at Bowdoin from 1856 to 1862. After a year spent in the study of theology at Berlin and Halle he was appointed Brown Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Andover and so continued for the rest of his life. He was also lecturer on pastoral theology, 1863-68, and president of the faculty, 1878-96.
In 1886 he and four other professors were brought to trial by the board of visitors for ideas expressed in the Andover Review, and Smyth was removed from his chair of instruction. The trustees, who sustained the faculty, appealed to the supreme court of Massachusetts, which, October 28, 1891, set aside the verdict of the board of visitors on technical grounds. A second trial before the board, the following year, resulted in the case being dismissed.
As a member of the prudential committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Smyth steadily championed the right of liberal interpretation standards, during the controversies in the eighties over the qualifications of candidates for appointment to the mission field.
His especial interest in the field of ecclesiastical history was the development of Christian thought, which he pursued by the historical rather than the dogmatic method. His favorite field was the first three centuries, through which he traced the growth of the doctrines of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ with great detail and scholarly thoroughness. The other major domain of his interest was the religious thought of the eighteenth century, with especial reference to Jonathan Edwards.
He also prepared, in collaboration with Prof. C. J. H. Ropes, The Conflict of Christianity with Heathenism (1879), a translation of Gerhard Uhlhorn's work, and edited Observations Concerning the Scripture economy of the Trinity and Covenant of Redemption (1880), by Jonathan Edwards. Smyth was a member of several historical societies, a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College, and a trustee of Dummer and Abbot academies.
He died in 1904.
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He did believe and teach that no eschatology could stand which limited God's redemptive purpose.
His nature was rich and sympathetic and his manner, quiet and self-effacing; but his indomitable will caused him to stand firm for his convictions.
His wife, whom he married August 12, 1857, was Elizabeth Bradford, daughter of Rev. William Theodore Dwight of Portland, Maine, and a descendant of Jonathan Edwards: they had no children.