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See also:CAIRD, See also:JOHN (182o–1898) , Scottish divine and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Greenock on the 15th of See also:December 182o. In his sixteenth See also:year he entered the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of his See also:father, who was partner and manager of a See also:firm of See also:engineers. Two years later, however, he obtained leave to continue his studies at See also:Glasgow University. After a year of See also:academic See also:life he tried business again, but in 184o he gave it up finally and returned to See also:college. In 1845 he entered the See also:ministry of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:Scotland, and after holding several livings accepted the See also:chair of divinity at Glasgow in 1862. During these years he won a foremost See also:place among the preachers of Scotland. In See also:theology he was a Broad Churchman, seeking always to emphasize the permanent elements in See also:religion, and ignoring technicalities. In 1873 he was appointed See also:vice-See also:chancellor and See also:principal of Glasgow University. He delivered the See also:Gifford Lectures in 1892–1893 and in 1895–1896. His Introduction to the See also:Philosophy of Religion (188o) is an See also:attempt to show the essential rationality of religion. It is idealistic in See also:character, being in fact a See also:reproduction of Hegelian teaching in clear and melodious See also:language. His See also:argument for the Being of See also:God is based on the See also:hypothesis that thought—not individual but universal—is the reality of all things, the existence of this See also:Infinite Thought being demonstrated by the limitations of finite thought. Again his Gifford Lectures are devoted to the See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of the truth of See also:Christianity on grounds of right See also:reason alone. Caird wrote also an excellent study of See also:Spinoza, in which he showed the latent Hegelianism of the See also:great Jewish philosopher. He died on the 3oth of See also:July 1898.
End of Article: CAIRD, JOHN (182o–1898)
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