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See also:WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854) , See also:American theologian, was See also:born at See also:Princeton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 19th of See also:June 1774. He graduated at Harvard in 1796, and in 1798 was ordained pastor of the Congregational 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 at See also:West See also:Newbury. He was prominent among the founders of See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary and was its first See also:professor, occupying the See also:chair of See also:Christian theca logy from 18o8 to 1846, and being professor See also:emeritus until his See also:death in Andover on the 24th of See also:August 1854. He helped to establish the American See also:Tract Society, the American See also:Education Society, the See also:Temperance Society and the American See also:Board of Commissioners for See also:Foreign See also:Missions. He was an orthodox Calvinist and an able dialectician. His See also:principal See also:works (5 vols., Andover, 1849-50) were Lectures on the See also:Inspiration of the Scriptures (1829), See also:Memoirs of American Missionaries (1833), Examination of the See also:Doctrine of Perfection (1841), Lectures on Church See also:Government (1843), and Lectures on Swedenborgianism (1846); he also wrote a See also:History of Andover Seminary (1848), completed by his son.
His son, LEONARD WOODS (1807-1878), was born in West Newbury, See also:Mass., on the 24th of See also:November 1807, and graduated at See also:Union See also:College in 1827 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830. His See also:translation of Georg Christian Knapp's Christian See also:Theology (1831-1833) was See also:long used as a See also:text-See also:book in American theological seminaries. He was assistant See also:Hebrew instructor (1832-1833) at Andover, and having been licensed to preach by the See also:Londonderry See also:Presbytery in 183o was ordained as an evangelist by the Third Presbytery of New See also:York in 1833. In 1834-1837 he edited the newly-established See also:Literary and Theological See also:Review, in which he opposed the " New Haven " theology. After being professor of sacred literature in the See also:Bangor Theological Seminary for three years, he was See also:president of See also:Bowdoin College from 1839 to 1866, and introduced there many important reforms. From June 1867 to See also:September 1868 Dr Woods worked in See also:London and See also:Paris for the See also:Maine See also:Historical Society, See also:collecting materials for the See also:early history of Maine; he induced J. G. See also:Kohl of See also:Bremen to prepare the first See also:volume (1868) of the Historical Society's Documentary History, and he discovered a MS. of See also:Hakluyt's Discourse on Western Planting, which was edited, partly with Woods's notes, by See also:Charles See also:Dean in 1877. ' He died in See also:Boston on the 24th of See also:December 1878. He was a remarkable linguist, conversationalist and orator, notable for his uncompromising See also:independence, his See also:opinion that the See also:German See also:reformation was a misfortune and that the reformation should have been within the church.
See E. A. See also:Park, See also:Life and See also:Character of Leonard Woods, Jr. (Andover, 1880).
End of Article: WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
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