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Henry Preserved Smith ---
SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847-1927),
American Biblical scholar, was born in Troy, Ohio. He graduated at Amherst
College in 1869 and studied theology in Lane Theological Seminary in 1860-1872,
in Berlin in 1872-1874 and in Leipzig in 1876-1877. He was instructor in church
history in 1874-1875, and in Hebrew in 1875-1876, and was assistant-professor in
1877-1879 and professor in 1879-1893 of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in
Lane Theological Seminary.
In 1892 he was tried for heresy by the Presbytery
of Cincinnati, was found guilty of teaching (in a pamphlet entitled Biblical
Scholarship and Inspiration, 1891) that there were "errors of historic
fact," suppressions of "historic truths," etc. in the books of Chronicles, and
that the "inspiration of the Hebrew Scriptures is consistent with the
unprofitableness of portions of the sacred writings,"--in other words, that
inspiration does not imply inerrancy, and he was suspended from the
ministry.
Dr. Smith retired from the denomination, and in
1893, upon becoming a professor at Andover Theological Seminary, entered the
ministry of the Congregational Church. From 1897 to 1906 he was a professor in Amherst College, and in 1907 became a
professor in the Meadville Theological School (Pennsylvania).
He published The Bible and Islam (1897),
Commentary on the Books of Samuel (1899, in the "International Critical
Commentary ") and Old Testament History (1903, in the " International
Theological Library"). In Inspiration and Inerrancy (Cincinnati, 1893),
he reprinted the papers on which the heresy charge was made, and outlined the
case.
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