John Sedberry Marshall (May 25, 1898 – 1979) was an American scholar whose works focused on topics related to the United States Episcopal Church; he authored studies on the theology of

William Porcher DuBose William Porcher DuBose (April 11, 1836 – August 18, 1918) was an American priest, author, and theologian in the Episcopal Church in the United States. After service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, in which he becam ...

and

Richard Hooker Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian.The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church by F. L. Cross (Editor), E. A. Livingstone (Editor) Oxford University ...

.''Who Was Who in America, Volume 8'' (Marquis-Who's Who, 1985), p. 262.

Early life and career

He was born in

Fullerton, California Fullerton ( ) is a city located in northern Orange County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 143,617. Fullerton was founded in 1887. It secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Sa ...

and educated at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

(where he graduated with a BA in 1921) and

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

(where he gained his

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in 1926). Marshall was the professor of philosophy at

Albion College Albion College is a private liberal arts college in Albion, Michigan. The college was founded in 1835 and its undergraduate population was approximately 1,500 students in 2014. They participate in NCAA Division III and the Michigan Intercolle ...

from 1926 until 1946 and professor of philosophy at the

University of the South The University of the South, familiarly known as Sewanee (), is a private Episcopal liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of ...

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from 1946 until 1968. He was also editor of the ''

Anglican Theological Review The ''Anglican Theological Review'' is the "unofficial journal of the seminaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada." Issues include peer-reviewed articles, poetry submissions, and book reviews. The jo ...

'' during 1959–1965.

Writings

In 1949 Marshall's book on the theology of William Porcher DuBose, ''The Word Was Made Flesh'', was published by the University of the South Press with an introduction by the late Episcopal bishop of New York City,

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.Norman Pittenger, 'Reviewed Work: The Word Was Made Flesh by John S. Marshall', ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'', Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 1950), pp. 63-64. Norman Pittenger appraised the work as a "convenient, logically developed outline of the whole philosophical-theological view of Du Bose". Marshall's 1956 work, ''Hooker's Theology of Common Prayer'', is a guide to Richard Hooker's fifth book of his ''Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie''.Massey H. Shepherd, 'Reviewed Work: Hooker's Theology of Common Prayer. The Fifth Book of the Polity Paraphrased and Expanded into a Commentary on the Prayer Book by John S. Marshall', ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'', Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 1956), pp. 415-416. In his review,

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said it was "nothing less than an up-to-date apology for the

Book of Common Prayer The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign ...

" and "an outstanding example of how old classics can be made to speak in contemporary accents to living issues of theology". In 1963, Marshall composed a fuller treatment of Hooker's theology in ''Hooker and the Anglican Tradition: An Historical and Theological Study on Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity''. Marshall argued that Hooker in his ''Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie'' only aimed to refute the

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in Books II–V, i–xlix and VI, and that Books I, V, l–lxxxi, VII–VIII were intended as a ''Summa Theologiae'' modelled on

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

and in which Hooker imitated

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

's method of continual discourse.C. W. Dugmore, 'Reviewed Work: Hooker and the Anglican Tradition', ''History'', Vol. 50, No. 168 (1965), pp. 80-81.

Personal life

Marshall married Elizabeth Southard on May 26, 1923, and they had one son.

Works

Books

*''Existence and Value'', co-authored with

Nikolay Lossky Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky. (; – 24 January 1965), also known as N. O. Lossky, was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epistemology, personalism, libertarianism, ethics and axiology (value theory). He gave ...

(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1935). *''The Genius and Mission of the Episcopal Church'' (Philadelphia: Church Historical Society, 1949). *''The Word Was Made Flesh: The Theology of William Porscher DuBose'', introduction by

(Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press at the University of the South, 1949). *''Hooker's Theology of Common Prayer: The Fifth Book of the Polity Paraphrased and Expanded into a Commentary on the Prayer Book'' (Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press at the University of the South, 1956). *''Hooker and the Anglican Tradition: An Historical and Theological Study on Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity'' (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1963).

Articles

*'Logic and Language', ''The Monist'', Vol. 40, No. 3 (July 1930), pp. 453–461. *'From Aristotle to Christ: Or The Philosophy of William Porcher DuBose', ''The Sewanee Review'', Vol. 51, No. 1 (January – March 1943), pp. 148–159. *'Richard Hooker and the Anglo-Saxon Ideal', ''The Sewanee Review'', Vol. 52, No. 3 (Summer 1944), pp. 381–392. *'Aristotle and the Agrarians', ''The Review of Politics'', Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 1947), pp. 350–361. *'Art and Aesthetic in Aristotle', ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism'', Vol. 12, No. 2 (December 1953), pp. 228–231.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, John Sedberry 1898 births 1979 deaths People from Fullerton, California Pomona College alumni Boston University alumni Albion College faculty Sewanee: The University of the South faculty