George Park Fisher

George Park Fisher

George Park Fisher (August 10, 1827 - December 20, 1909) was an American theologian and historian who was noted as a teacher and a prolific writer. He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, graduated from Brown University in 1847, studied theology at Yale Divinity School and in Germany, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1851. From 1854 to 1861, he was professor of divinity at Yale, and he later became a professor of ecclesiastical history and an emeritus professor in 1901. He was president of the American Historical Association in 1898.

Works

*"Essay on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity" (1865)
*"History of the Reformation" (1873)
*"The Beginnings of Christianity" (1877)
*"Faith and Rationalism" (1879)
*"The Christian Religion" (1882)
*"The Grounds of Historic and Christian Belief" (1883)
*"The Christian Religion" (1886)
*"Manual of Christian Evidences" (1890)
*"Brief History of the Nation" (1890)
*"Colonial History of the United States" (1892)
*"Manual of Natural Theology" (1893)
*"History of Christian Doctrine" (1896)
*"Outline of Universal History" (1904)

References

*cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia Americana|article=Fisher, George Parker|year=1919|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VGkMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280&dq=george+park+fisher+encyclopedia&lr=&ei=7oRdSKGxD4q2iwGowOGDDA

External links

*Gutenberg author
* [http://www.historians.org/info/aha_history/gpfisher.htm 1898 Presidential Address] to the American Historical Association


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