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Gerald Birney Smith
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'''Gerald Birney Smith''' (May 3, 1868 – April 2, 1929) was a Christian author, educator, and administrator at the [[University of Chicago Divinity School|Chicago School]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2W5mPnk Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860-1960]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2TNeDM2 THE FALL OF '26: GERALD BIRNEY SMITH AND THE COLLAPSE OF SOCIO-HISTORICAL THEOLOGY]</ref>
He was born in Middlefield, Massachusettss and attended Brown university in 1891. He taught at Oberlin Academy, Worcester Academy, and was an active educator his entire life. While at the University of Chicago, when [[Shailer Mathews]] was absent Smith would take up duties of Dean of the department.
He wrote about topics such as [[Nature worship]] and also edited the ''American Journal of Theology'' and the ''Journal of Religion''.<ref>Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, by W. Creighton Peden</ref>
==Works==
* Christianity and Critical Theology
* A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics
* The Function of a Critical Theology
* The Nature of Science and of Religion and their Interrelation
* The Problem of Theological Method
* [https://ift.tt/2W5mReW Social Idealism and the Changing Theology]
* The Realities of the Christian Religion
* The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
* What Shall the Systematic Theologian Expect from the New Testament Scholar?
* Christianity and the Spirit of Democracy
* Democracy and Religious Experience
* Christianity and Political Democracy
* Making Christianity Safe for Democracy
* The Task of the Church in a Democratic Age
* Religious Significance of Jesus's Humanity
* The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
==References==
==External links==
*
* [https://ift.tt/2TMGQlP Gerald Birney Smith]
* [https://ift.tt/2W5mSQ2 Smith, Gerald Birney]
[[Category:1868 births]]
[[Category:1929 deaths]]
[[Category:American theologians]]
[[Category:American biblical scholars]]
[[Category:American historians of religion]]
[[Category:University of Chicago Divinity School faculty]]
He was born in Middlefield, Massachusettss and attended Brown university in 1891. He taught at Oberlin Academy, Worcester Academy, and was an active educator his entire life. While at the University of Chicago, when [[Shailer Mathews]] was absent Smith would take up duties of Dean of the department.
He wrote about topics such as [[Nature worship]] and also edited the ''American Journal of Theology'' and the ''Journal of Religion''.<ref>Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, by W. Creighton Peden</ref>
==Works==
* Christianity and Critical Theology
* A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics
* The Function of a Critical Theology
* The Nature of Science and of Religion and their Interrelation
* The Problem of Theological Method
* [https://ift.tt/2W5mReW Social Idealism and the Changing Theology]
* The Realities of the Christian Religion
* The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
* What Shall the Systematic Theologian Expect from the New Testament Scholar?
* Christianity and the Spirit of Democracy
* Democracy and Religious Experience
* Christianity and Political Democracy
* Making Christianity Safe for Democracy
* The Task of the Church in a Democratic Age
* Religious Significance of Jesus's Humanity
* The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
==References==
==External links==
*
* [https://ift.tt/2TMGQlP Gerald Birney Smith]
* [https://ift.tt/2W5mSQ2 Smith, Gerald Birney]
[[Category:1868 births]]
[[Category:1929 deaths]]
[[Category:American theologians]]
[[Category:American biblical scholars]]
[[Category:American historians of religion]]
[[Category:University of Chicago Divinity School faculty]]
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