The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston by J. Lewis Diman (1881)
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Jeremiah Lewis Diman was an American clergyman and educator, professor of history and political economy at Brown University.
Background
Jeremiah Lewis Diman was born on May 1, 1831 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, where his ancestors had lived for four generations. His father, Byron, a business man of scholarly tastes, governor of his native state in 1846-47, was a descendant of Thomas Dimont, of French extraction, who settled in East Hampton, Long Island, United States about 1656; his mother, Abby Alden Wight, was seventh in descent from John Alden.
Education
After attending the public schools of Bristol, J. Lewis, as from boyhood he chose to be called, prepared for college under Reverend James N. Sykes.
Before he was sixteen he had written a history of Bristol based on researches in the town records and conversations with old inhabitants, which was published in a weekly newspaper. At Brown University, from which he graduated in 1851, he added to the work required a large amount of reading in history, philosophy, and literature. After studying German, philosophy, and the classics for a year with Reverend Dr. Thayer of Newport, Rhode Island, he entered Andover Theological Seminary. Two years later he went to Germany and attended lectures at Halle, Heidelberg, and Berlin. Returning to America, he graduated from Andover in 1856.
Career
Important churches at once sought to avail themselves of his training, rare gifts, and attractive personality, but he chose finally to settle in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he was ordained as pastor of the First Congregational Church, December 9, 1856. Three years later, January 1860, he resigned, and shortly afterward became pastor of the Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts.
A brilliant career in the ministry seemed to be before him. Horace Bushnell long and patiently endeavored to secure him as his successor at Hartford. Churches in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, South Carolina, beckoned to him.
Accordingly, when in 1864 he was offered the chair of history and political economy at Brown University he accepted it. Here his lectures—for he soon discarded textbook instruction—rich, penetrating, polished, and enlivened by wit, made him the idol of the students in spite of his high-bred reserve.
On three occasions President Eliot tried to persuade him to leave Providence for Cambridge; he was offered professorships at Princeton and Johns Hopkins, and the presidency of the University of Vermont, and of the University of Wisconsin; but he chose to stay at Brown.
He became an editorial writer for the Providence Journal when it was under the management of his intimate friend, James B. Angell, and was regarded as one of its ablest contributors until his death.
Of his publications in periodicals, “Religion in America, ” a survey for the century 1776-1876 (North American Review, January 1876), attracted wide notice. From 1877 to 1881 he reviewed historical publications for The Nation. In 1879 he delivered a notable course of lectures at Johns Hopkins on the “Thirty Years’ War, ” and in 1880 he gave the Lowell Lectures, Boston. The latter were published in 1881 under the title, The Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories.
His career was suddenly cut short by an attack of malignant erysipelas when he was in his fiftieth year. In such high regard was he held in the state that the Rhode Island House of Representatives adjourned to attend his funeral. After his death a volume of selections from his writings, Orations and Essays: with Selected Parish Sermons (1882), including a commemorative discourse by James O. Murray, was published.
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Religion
Diman was strongly inclined to the Episcopal Church, and sympathetic toward much in Roman Catholicism, while some of his doctrinal views led orthodox Bostonians to accuse him of Unitarian leanings.
Personality
In spite of Diman's gifts and deeply devotional nature, however, Diman had characteristics which interfered with his happiness in his calling. He was essentially a student and teacher, historically minded, frank and fearless in stating his views, unwilling to wear denominational chains. He abhorred revivals and all cheap expedients to attract people.
Connections
On May 15, 1861 Diman married Emily G. Stimson, daughter of John J. Stimson of Providence.