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FAIRBAIRN, ANDREW MARTIN (1838- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 129 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAIRBAIRN, See also:ANDREW See also:MARTIN (1838- ) , See also:British Non-conformist divine, was See also:born near See also:Edinburgh on the 4th of See also:November 1838. He was educated at the See also:universities of Edinburgh and See also:Berlin, and at the Evangelical See also:Union Theological See also:Academy in See also:Glasgow. He entered the Congregational See also:ministry and held pastorates at See also:Bathgate, See also:West See also:Lothian and at See also:Aberdeen. From 1877 to 1886 he was See also:principal of Airedale See also:College, See also:Bradford, a See also:post which he gave up to become the first principal of See also:Mansfield College, See also:Oxford. In the transference to Oxford under that name of See also:Spring See also:Hill College, See also:Birmingham, he took a considerable See also:part, and he has exercised See also:influence not only over generations of his own students, but also over a large number of undergraduates in the university generally. He was granted the degree of M.A. by a See also:decree of See also:Convocation, and in 1903 received the honorary degree of See also:doctor of literature. He was also given the degrees of doctor of divinity of Edinburgh and Yale, and doctor of See also:laws of Aberdeen. His activities were not limited to his college See also:work. He delivered the See also:Muir lectures at Edinburgh University (1878-1882), the See also:Gifford lectures at Aberdeen (1892-1894), the Lyman See also:Beecher lectures at Yale (1891-1892), and the Haskell lectures in See also:India (1898-1899). He was a member of the Royal See also:Commission of Secondary See also:Education in 1894-1895, and of the Royal Commission on the Endowments of the Welsh See also:Church in 1906. In 1883 he was chairman of the Congregational Union of See also:England and See also:Wales. He is a prolific writer on theological subjects.

He resigned his position at Mansfield College in the spring of 1909. Among his See also:

works are :—Studies in the See also:Philosophy of See also:Religion and See also:History (1876); Studies in the See also:Life of See also:Christ (1881); Religion in History and in See also:Modern Life (1884; rev. 1893); Christ in Modern See also:Theology (1893); Christ in the Centuries (1893); Catholicism See also:Roman and See also:Anglican (1899) ; Philosophy of the See also:Christian Religion (1902) ; Studies in Religion and Theology (1909).

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