George Angier Gordon

Background

Gordon, George Angier was born on January 2, 1853 in Scotland. Son of George and Catherine (Hutcheon) Gordon.

Education

Education common schools, Insch, Scotland. Came to the United States, 1871. Graduate Bangor Theological Seminary, 1877.

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1881.

Doctor of Divinity, Bowdoin, 1893, Yale, 1893. South.T.D., Harvard, 1895, Columbia, 1903.

Doctor of Laws, Western Reserve University, 1912. Doctor of Divinity, Brown University, 1914.

Doctor of Divinity, Williams College, 1922.

Doctor of Laws, Boston University, 1923.

Career

Ordained Congleton ministry, 1877. Pastor Temple, Maine, 1877-1878, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1881-1883, Old South Church, Boston, 1884-1927. University preacher to Harvard, 1886-1890 and 1906-1909, Yale, 1888-1916.

Ingersoll lecturer, Harvard, 1896.

Lecturer, Lowell Institute, 1900. Lyman Beecher lecturer, Yale, 1901.

Nathaniel West. Taylor lecturer, Yale, 1908. Overseer, Harvard University, 1897-1916 and since 1925.

Author: The Witness to Immortality, 1893.

The Christ of Today, 1895. Immortality and the New Theodicy, 1897. The New Epoch for Faith, 1901.

Ultimate Conceptions of Faith, 1903.

Through Manitoba to God, 1906. Religion and Miracle, 1909, revised edit, 1910.

Revelation and the Ideal, 1913. Aspects of the Infinite Mystery, 1916.

Humanism in New England Theology, 1920.

My Education and Religion, 1925. Home: Brookline, Massachusetts

Achievements

• George Angier Gordon has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Susan Huntington Manning, June 3, 1890.

Father:

George Gordon

Mother:

Catherine (Hutcheon) Gordon

Spouse:

Susan Huntington Manning