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BARNES, ALBERT (1798–1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARNES, See also:ALBERT (1798–1870) , See also:American theologian, was See also:born at See also:Rome, New See also:York, on the 1st of See also:December 1798. He graduated at See also:Hamilton See also:College, See also:Clinton, N.Y., in 182o, and at the See also:Princeton Theological See also:Seminary in 1823, was ordained as a Presbyterian See also:minister by the See also:presbytery of Elizabethtown, New See also:Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian See also:Church in See also:Morristown, New Jersey (1825–183o) and of the First Presbyterian Church of See also:Philadelphia(183o-1867). He held a prominent See also:place in the New School See also:branch of the Presbyterians, to which he adhered on the See also:division of the de-nomination in 1837; he had been tried (but not convicted) for See also:heresy in 1836, the See also:charge being particularly against the views expressed by him in Notes on See also:Romans (1835) of the imputation of the See also:sin of See also:Adam, See also:original sin and the See also:atonement; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the See also:breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church. He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository See also:works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Eutope and See also:America than any others of their class. Of the well-known Notes on the New Testamentit is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 187o. The Notes on See also:Job, the See also:Psalms, See also:Isaiah and See also:Daniel, found scarcely less See also:acceptance. Displaying no original See also:critical See also:power, their See also:chief merit lies in the fact that they bring in a popular (but not always accurate) See also:form the results of the See also:criticism of others within the reach of See also:general readers. Barnes was the author of several other works of a See also:practical and devotional See also:kind, and a collection of his Theological Works was published in Philadelphia in 1875. He died in Philadelphia on the 24th of December 187o.

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