Calvinism : Pure And Mixed ; A Defence Of The Westminster Standards FACSIMILE
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William Greenough Thayer Shedd was an American Presbyterian theologian and author. His writings were popular and characterized by vigor, beauty, and clearness of style.
Background
He was born on June 21, 1820 in Acton, Massachussets, United States. He was the sixth in descent from Daniel Shed who settled in Braintree, Massachussets, in 1642, was largely a product of New England Puritan ancestry, birth and education. His father, Marshall Shedd, who had entered preparatory school at twenty-one and graduated at Dartmouth as valedictorian, was pastor of the Congregational church at Acton, Massachussets.
The boy's mother, Eliza (Thayer), was the daughter of Obadiah Thayer, a wealthy Boston merchant who, making his home with her, constantly encouraged the grandson in his ambitions. William was named in honor of a friend of the Thayer family, William Greenough, a well-known New England philanthropist.
Education
William was prepared for college at Westport, New York, and at fifteen entered the University of Vermont. The greatest personal influence he felt there was that of James Marsh, professor of philosophy, who made him an ardent disciple of Coleridge, Kant, and Plato. He spent three years in Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1843.
Career
After graduation from college in 1839 he taught school for a year in New York City. There he united with a Presbyterian church and determined to enter the ministry. In 1843 he served the Congregational church at Brandon, Vermont, 1843-45, being ordained January 4, 1844. Except for eighteen months (1862 - 63) at the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City, as co-pastor with the venerable Dr. Gardiner Spring, he devoted the remainder of his life to teaching and writing.
He was professor of English literature at the University of Vermont, 1845-52; of sacred rhetoric at Auburn Theological Seminary, 1852-54; and of church history at Andover Seminary, 1854-62. He then entered upon the most notable phase of his career as a professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. For eleven years he taught sacred rhetoric, but in 1874 succeeded Henry Boynton Smith in the chair of systematic theology. Then began his greatest service, which continued until failing strength forced his resignation in 1893. His impact on his generation was felt in his vigorous lectures to his students, his public addresses, his writings for the religious press, and especially in his Dogmatic Theology, issued in two volumes in 1888, to which he added a third in 1894.
He published translations and commentaries and contributed frequently to religious and theological periodicals.
During his last years he was an active opponent of the higher criticism represented by his famous seminary colleague, Charles A. Briggs, which since then has generally won its way throughout the Church.
Personality
He was revered and loved for the simplicity and sincerity of his character and for the delightful charm of his personality.
Connections
He married, October 7, 1845, Lucy Ann Myers of Whitehall, New York, who with their two sons and two daughters survived him.