James Marsh (1794-1842)

As is not uncommon among innovators, James Marsh, a professor of moral and intellectual theology and one-time president of the University of Vermont, remained conservative or traditional in intellectual and social areas outside those of his central passions of philosophy, theology, and education. His theological significance lies in his breaking fresh ground by introducing and helping articulate a new philosophy and by staking out some of the modifications in the main stream of American Protestant theology necessitated by that philosophy. The opinion that the so-called Vermont Transcendentalism has always been an enigma in American religious thought.2 is straightened out when Marsh's place in it is correctly understood. His voice was no echo of an increasingly moribund era which had been so brilliantly opened by Jonathan Edwards. He was rather himself a vigorous initiator of a new theological period, which is now commonly known as evangelical liberalism

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• Transcendental Trinitarian

  Open Access•Jonathan Koefoed•Religions•2017

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