Background
Tigert, John James was born on November 25, 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of John James and Mary (Van Veghten) Tigert.
Tigert, John James was born on November 25, 1856 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of John James and Mary (Van Veghten) Tigert.
Graduate Vanderbilt University, 1877, Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Doctor of Divinity, Emory and Henry. Doctor of Laws, University of Missouri.
Tutor and professor moral philosophy, Vanderbilt, 1881-1890. Pastor, Kansas City, Missoury, 1890-1894. Book editor, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and editor Methodist Quarterly Review, since 1894.
Assistant secretary General, Conferences, 1882, 1890, 1894, secretary, 1898, 1902, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Author: Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism, 1894. The Journal of Thomas Coke, 1896.
The Making of Methodism, 1898. Theism—a Survey of the Paths that Lead to God, 1901.
The Doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, 2 volumes, 1902.
Also numerous contributions to American and English reviews. Editor: Summer’s Systematic Theology, 2 volumes, 1886. McTyeire’s Passing Through the Gates, 1889.
Banks, Manual of Christian Doctrine, 1897.
Address: Nashville, Tennessee
Married Amelia McTyeire, August 28, 1878.