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See also:HODGE, See also:CHARLES (1797-1878) , See also:American theologian, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 28th of See also:December 1797. He graduated at the See also:College of New See also:Jersey (now See also:Princeton) in 1815, and in 1819 at the Princeton Theological See also:seminary, where he became an instructor in 182o, and the first See also:professor of See also:Oriental and Biblical literature in 1822. Meanwhile, in 1821, he had been ordained as a Presbyterian See also:minister. From 1826 to 1828 he studied under de Sacy in See also:Paris, under Gesenius and See also:Tholuck in See also:Halle, and under See also:Hengstenberg, See also:Neander and-See also:Humboldt in See also:Berlin. In 1840 he was transferred to the See also:chair of exegetical and didactic See also:theology, to which subjects that of polemic theology was added in 1854, and this 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 he held until his See also:death. In 1825 he established the quarterly Biblical Repertory, the See also:title of which was changed to Biblical Repertory and Theological See also:Review in 1830 and to Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review in 1837. With it, in 184o, was merged the See also:Literary and Theological Review of New See also:York, and in 1872 the American Presbyterian Review of New York, the title becoming Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review in 1872 and Princeton Review in 1877. He secured for it the position of theological See also:organ of the Old School See also:division of the Presbyterian 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, and continued its See also:principal editor and contributor until 1868, when the Rev. Lyman H. Atwater became his colleague. His more important essays were republished under the titles Essays and Reviews
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(1857), Princeton Theological Essays, and Discussions in Church Polity (1878). He was See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly (O.S.) in 1846, a member of the See also:committee to revise the See also:Book of Discipline of the Presbyterian church in 1858, and See also:president of the Presbyterian See also:Board of See also:Foreign See also:Missions in 1868-187o. The 24th of See also:April 1872, the fiftieth anniversary of his See also:election to his professorship, was observed in Princeton as his See also:jubilee by between 400 and 500 representatives of his 2700 pupils, and $50,000 was raised for the endowment of his chair. He died at Princeton on the 19th of See also:June 1878. Hodge was one of the greatest of American theologians.
Besides his articles in the Princeton Review, he published a Commentary on the See also:Epistle to the See also:Romans (1835, abridged 1836, rewritten and enlarged 1864, new ed. 1886), Constitutional See also:History of the Presbyterian Church in the See also:United States (2 vols., 1839-1840) ; The Way of See also:Life (1841); Commentaries on See also:Ephesians (1856); 1 See also:Corinthians (18J7); 2 Corinthians (1859); Systematic Theology (3 vols., 2200 pp., 1871-1873), probably the best of all See also:modern ex-positions of Calvinistic dogmatic; and What is Darwinism? (1874), in which he opposed " Atheistic Evolutionism." After his death a See also:volume of See also:Conference Papers (1879) was published. His life, by his son, was published in 1880.
His son, See also:ARCHIBALD See also:ALEXANDER HODGE (1823-1886), also famous as a Presbyterian theologian, was born at Princeton on the 18th of See also:July 1823. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1841, and at the Princeton Theological seminary in 1846, and was ordained in 1847. From 1847 to 185o he was a missionary at See also:Allahabad, See also:India, and was then pastor of churches successively at See also:Lower See also:West See also:Nottingham, See also:Maryland (1851-1855); at Fredericksburg, See also:Virginia (1855-1861), and at Wilkes-See also:Barre, Pennsylvania (1861-1864). From 1864 to 1877 he was professor of didactic and polemical theology in the See also:Allegheny Theological seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where he was also from 1866 to 1877 pastor of the See also:North Church (Presbyterian). In 1878 he succeeded his See also:father as professor of didactic theology at the Princeton seminary. He died on the 11th of See also:November 1886. Besides See also:writing the See also:biography of his father, he was the author of Outlines of Theology (186o, new ed. 1875; enlarged, 1879); The See also:Atonement (1867); Exposition of the See also:Confession of Faith (1869); and Popular Lectures on Theological Themes (1887).
See C. A. Salmond's Charles and A. A. Hodge (New York, 1888).
End of Article: HODGE, CHARLES (1797-1878)
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