Background
Keyser, Leander Sylvester was born on March 13, 1856 in Tuscarawas Company, Ohio, United States. Son of David A. and Barbara A. (Biddle) Keyser.
Keyser, Leander Sylvester was born on March 13, 1856 in Tuscarawas Company, Ohio, United States. Son of David A. and Barbara A. (Biddle) Keyser.
Graduate Wittenberg Division School, 1883. Master of Arts, Ohio Northern University, 1886. Master of Arts, Wittenberg College, 1893, Doctor of Divinity, 1900.
Ordained Lutheran ministry, 1879. Pastor Louisiana Grange, Indiana, 1879-1881, Elkhart, 1883-1889, Springfield, O., 1889-1895. Managing editor Lutheran Evangelist, 1895-1897.
Pastor Midland College Church, Atchison, Kansas, 1897-1903, Dover, Ohio, 1903-1911.
Professor systematic theology, Hamma Divinity School (Wittenberg College), Springfield, O., 1911-1932. Professor emeritus, since 1932.
Author: The Only Way Out, 1888, revised edit, 1906. Our Bird Comrades, 1907.
The Rational Test, 1908.
A System of Christian Ethics, 1913. A System of Natural Theism, second edition, 1922. A System of General Ethics, 4th edit, 1934.
In the Redeemer’s Footsteps, 2 volumes, 1919.
In the Apostles’ Footsteps, 2 volumes, 1920. Contending for the Faith, 1921.
A System of Christian Evidence, 1922, 6th edit, 1935. Manitoba’s First Disobedience, 1924.
The Doctrines of Modernism, 1925.
The Problem of Origins, 1926. The Conflict of Fundamentalism and Modernism, 1926. A Manual of Christian Ethics, 1926.
A Handbook of Christian Psychology, 1928.
The Philosophy of Christianity, 1928. A Reasonable Faith, 1933.
Contributor to magazines Home: Springfield, O.
Married Mary C. Foltz, November 18, 1879. Children: Ort Albert, Dorner Luther, Tedrow Sylvester.