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PATTON, FRANCIS LANDEY (1843- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATTON, See also:FRANCIS LANDEY (1843- ) , See also:American educationalist and theologian, was See also:born in See also:Warwick See also:parish, Bermuda, on the 22nd of See also:January 1843. He studied at See also:Knox See also:College and at the university of See also:Toronto; graduated at See also:Princeton Theological See also:Seminary in 1865; was ordained to the Presbyterian See also:ministry in See also:June 1865; was pastor of the 84th See also:Street Presbyterian See also:Church, New See also:York See also:City, in 1865-1867, of the Presbyterian Church of See also:Nyack, New York, in 1867-187o, of the See also:South Church, See also:Brooklyn, in 1871, and of the See also:Jefferson See also:Park Presbyterian Church, See also:Chicago, in 1874-1881; and in 1872-1881 was See also:professor in McCormick Seminary, Chicago. He was See also:moderator of the See also:General See also:Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1878. In 1881-1888 he was See also:Stuart professor " of the relation of See also:philosophy and See also:science to the See also:Christian See also:religion " (a See also:chair founded for him) in Princeton Theological Seminary; in 1888-1902 he was See also:president of the College of New See also:Jersey, which in 1896 became Princeton University; in 1902 he became president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He brought charges of See also:heresy in 1874 against See also:David See also:Swing, and was prosecuting See also:attorney at Swing's trial. In 1881 and 1892 he was one of the opponents of Dr See also:Charles A. See also:Briggs at the See also:time of the Briggs heresy See also:case. Dr Patton was an opponent of the revision of the See also:Confession of Faith. He was editor, with Dr Briggs, of the Presbyterian See also:Review, in i88o-1888. He wrote The See also:Inspiration of the Scriptures (1869), and See also:Summary of Christian See also:Doctrine (1874).

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