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SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 264 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SMITH, See also:HENRY PRESERVED (1847– ) , See also:American Biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Troy, See also:Ohio, on the 23rd of See also:October 1847. He graduated at See also:Amherst See also:College in 1869 and studied See also:theology in See also:Lane Theological See also:Seminary in 1869-1872, in See also:Berlin in 1872–1874 and in See also:Leipzig in 1876–1877. He was instructor in See also:church See also:history in 1874-1875, and in See also:Hebrew in 1875-1876, and was assistant-See also:professor in 1877–1879 and professor in 1879–1893 of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in Lane Theological Seminary. In 1892 he was tried for See also:heresy by the See also:Presbytery of See also:Cincinnati, was found guilty of teaching (in a pamphlet entitled Biblical Scholarship and See also:Inspiration, 1891) that there were "errors of historic fact," suppressions of "historic truths, &c., in the books of See also:Chronicles, and that the " inspiration of the See also:Holy Scriptures is consistent with the'unprofitableness of portions of the sacred writings,"—in other words, that inspiration does not imply inerrancy,—and he was suspended from the See also:ministry. Dr Smith retired from the See also:denomination, and in 1893; upon becoming a professor at See also:Andover Theological Seminary , entered the ministry of the Congregational Church. From 1897 to 1906he was a professor in Amherst College, and in 1907 became a professor in the See also:Meadville (See also:Pennsylvania) Theological School. He published The See also:Bible and See also:Islam (1897), Commentary on the Books of See also:Samuel (1899, in the " See also:International See also:Critical Commentary ") and Old Testament History (1903, in the " International Theologica) Library "). In Inspiration and Inerrancy (Cincinnati, 1893), he reprinted the papers on which the heresy See also:charge was made, any outlined the See also:case.

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