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William Greenough Thayer Shedd
Born	June 21, 1820 Acton, Massachusetts
Died	November 17, 1894 (1894-11-18) (aged 74) New York, New York
Alma mater	University of Vermont Andover Theological Seminary
Occupation(s)	Theologian, professor

William Greenough Thayer Shedd (June 21, 1820 – November 17, 1894) was an American Presbyterian theologian from Massachusetts.

Life

William Greenough Thayer Shedd was the son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer and was born in Acton, Massachusetts on June 21, 1820.

In 1835, Shedd enrolled at the University of Vermont and became a protégé of UVM president James Marsh. Under the influence of his mentor, Shedd was deeply affected by the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Transcendentalism. He graduated from UVM in 1839 and taught school for one year, during which time he began to attend the Presbyterian church. Being called to the ministry, Shedd entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1840 and studied under theologian Leonard Woods. He graduated in 1843.

After a short pastorate at Brandon, Vermont, he was successively professor of English literature at the University of Vermont (1845–1852), professor of sacred rhetoric in Auburn Theological Seminary (1852–1854), professor of church history in Andover Theological Seminary (1854–1862), and, after one year as associate pastor of the Brick Church of New York City (1862–1863), professor of sacred literature (1863–1874) and of systematic theology (1874–1890) in Union Theological Seminary. He died in New York City on November 17, 1894.

Published works

Dr. Shedd was a high Calvinist and was one of the most notable systematic theologians of the American Presbyterian church. His great work was Dogmatic Theology (3 vols, 1888–1894). He served as editor of Coleridge's Complete Works (7 vols, New York, 1894). He also wrote:

• The Influence of Temperance Upon Intellectual Discipline: A Discourse Delivered Before the Temperance Society of the University of Vermont (1844)
• Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1856), in which he applied to history the doctrine of organic evolution
• Discourses and Essays (1856)
• A Manual of Church History (2 vols, 1857), a translation of Guericke
• A History of Christian Doctrine (2 vols, 1863)
• Homiletics and Pastoral Theology (1867)
• Sermons to the Natural Man (1871)
• Theological Essays (1877)
• Literary Essays (1878)
• Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1879)
• Sermons to the Spiritual Man (1884)
• The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1885)
• Introductory Essay on Augustine's De Trinitate, 1 February 1887.

References

1. Dogmatic Theology, ed. by Alan Gomes. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2003. p.16
2. James Marsh Summary. Retrieved July 17, 2019 – via www.bookrags.com.
3. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Shedd, William Greenough Thayer". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 817.
4. Gomes, 17-18
5. Shedd, William Greenough Thayer (1887). Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III/Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin/On the Holy Trinity/Introductory Essay  – via Wikisource.

External links

• Works by William Greenough Thayer Shedd at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about William Greenough Thayer Shedd at the Internet Archive
• Works by William Greenough Thayer Shedd at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

• 1820 births
• 1894 deaths
• American Calvinist and Reformed theologians
• 19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
• University of Vermont alumni
• Andover Newton Theological School alumni
• Andover Newton Theological School faculty
• University of Vermont faculty
• Union Theological Seminary faculty
• Auburn Theological Seminary faculty