Theological work

By: Shailer Mathews

Date: 1924

Source: Mathews, Shailer. The Faith of Modernism. New York: Macmillan, 1924, 37–39.

About the Author: Shailer Mathews (1863–1941), a noted liberal theologian, became a professor at the Divinity School of the new University of Chicago in 1894. He was a strong advocate of employing modern methods for the study of Scripture, which eventually led to conflicts with Fundamentalists. He died on October 23, 1941, at the age of seventy-eight.

Introduction

Shailer Mathews graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1887. Not feeling a call to ministry, he decided to become a teacher. He taught rhetoric at Colby College and then became professor of history and political economy.

The early part of Mathews' career was spent in the fields of history, economics, and sociology. Two years after the...