Gerald Birney Smith (May 3, 1868 – April 2, 1929) was a Christian author, educator, and administrator at the Chicago School. He was born in Middlefield, Massachusetts 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 Shailer Mathews (1863–1941) was an American liberal Christian theologian, involved with the Social Gospel movement. Career Born on May 26, 1863, in Portland, Maine, and graduated from Colby College. Mathews was a progressive, advocating soci ...

was absent Smith would take up duties of Dean of the department. He wrote about topics such as

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and also edited the ''American Journal of Theology'' and the ''Journal of Religion''.Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, by W. Creighton Peden

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
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

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Gerald Birney Smith

Smith, Gerald Birney
1868 births 1929 deaths American theologians American biblical scholars American historians of religion University of Chicago Divinity School faculty {{US-theologian-stub