Background
George Angier Gordon was the son of George and Catherine (Hutcheon) Gordon. He was born on January 2, 1853, of farming ancestry, on the estate of Pitodrie, of which his father was overseer, in the parish of Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Through Man to God (Classic Reprint)
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The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life
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Humanism in New England Theology
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The Christ of To-Day
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George Angier Gordon
Edit ProfileEducation
In his boyhood, Gordon worked on the farm and obtained an elementary education in local schools.
Various colleges testified to his learning and ability by bestowing upon him their honorary degrees.
Goodwin, and, after two years, was admitted to the senior class, receiving in 1881 the degree of B. A. , with honors in philosophy.
Career
Emigrating to America, Gordon reached Boston on July 13, 1871, and for three years he worked at various manual trades. True to his Scottishupbringing, he promptly sought out a Presbyterian church.
Rev. Luther H. Angier, the pastor of the church which he selected, discerning the young man’s mental and spiritual promise, encouraged him to study for the ministry and secured his admittance on September 16, 1874, to the Congregational theological school in Bangor, Maine, from which he graduated in 1877.
During the summers of 1875 and 1876, he acted as minister of a small missionary parish in Temple, Maine, which ordained him as its pastor on June 20, 1877.
His ministry here was brief, for his keen intellectual interests prompted him to further study. Again through the good offices of Mr. Angier, he was enabled to enter Harvard College as a special student in the autumn of 1878.
Here he attracted the attention of President Eliot and Professors James, Palmer, and
On August 1, 1881, he became pastor of the Second CongregationalChurch in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he remained until called to the Old South Church in Boston.
He was installed as its pastor on April 2, 1884, and served until his death, although his active duties ceased in 1927.
The Council convened to advise upon Gordon’s installation in Boston was not unanimous in its approval of him. Some of its members were startled by the “heresies” of the young candidate, and for several years, he was regarded as a dangerous radical in Congregational circles.
But the utter sincerity of his character, his power as a preacher, and the success of his ministry gradually wore down opposition. His loyalty to Harvard was firm and constant.
He served on the first board of preachers, under the voluntary system, 1886-90, again as university preacher, 1906-09, as a member of the board of overseers and as president of the alumni association.
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The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life
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Humanism in New England Theology
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The Christ of To-Day
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Ultimate conceptions of faith
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The New Epoch for Faith
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The Vision of the Dead: A Sermon Preached at the Old South Church, Boston, Sunday Morning, November 28, 1897
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Through Man to God (Classic Reprint)
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Immortality and the New Theodicy
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- Religion and Miracle (Classic Reprint)
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The Witness to Immortality in Literature, Philosophy and Life
Religion
Gordon was more of a theological moderate than a conservative, and on certain points, he was so progressive that he was suspected of heresy.
Views
Philosophically, Gordon was influenced most deeply by Plato, Aristotle, and Kant; theologically, he reasoned “through man to God. ” Beginning his sustained thinking at a time when Idealism prevailed, and in a region where the influence of Emerson was strong, he accepted the philosophical principle of Unity but added to it the antithetical principle of Difference, thus maintaining a concrete unity in diversity, instead of a simple, abstract unity.
Holding both principles equally valid, he enshrined both in the being of God and so defended on philosophical grounds the doctrine of the Trinity.
Afterward, he descended from this high level to that of a “social” or “domestic” Trinity, but his first important book, The Christ of To-day (1895), contains his most notable contribution to theological thought. Strenuously upholding the doctrine of the Trinity, he differed fundamentally from the Unitarians to whom in other respects he was closely allied, while his emphasis upon man’s free moral agency, which might stand out forever against the divine love, separated him from the Universalists, notwithstanding his “new theodicy. ”
He chose rather to deal with themes of eternal moment - the moral sovereignty of God, the tragic grandeur of Humanity, and individual responsibility to God - which he treated with mental resonance and moral passion.
Despising sham and sensationalism, he was quick to recognize genuine intellectual promise and encourage with generous words of sympathy and appreciation many an obscure young clergyman whose frank expression of unconventional opinions had excited suspicion and distrust.
Personality
Gordon was a philosopher who knew how to preach, and a theologian with religious insight and fervor.
He was not a “popular preacher, ” for he held himself above topics of transient interest and never condescended to sentimentalism or triviality.
Connections
On June 3, 1890, Gordon married Susan Huntington Manning, daughter of his predecessor in the ministry of Old South Church.
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