1599 July 1662 Glasgow, Scotland Robert Baillie, (born 1599 died July 1662, Glasgow), Presbyterian minister and theological scholar who led the movement in Scotland to reject (1637) the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer.
Dr. Rupp, an ordained Presbyterian minister and a religions scholar, became dean of Harvard Divinity School at 37, president of Rice University at 42 and president of Columbia at 50.
A Yale graduate, a Rhodes scholar, an audacious investor, a Presbyterian who preached open-mindedness and eschewed literal interpretations of Scripture, Mr. Templeton — who began annual meetings with prayers, he said, to clear the minds of shareholders — made billions as a pioneer in his globally diversified Templeton funds, often taking the old advice of "buy low, sell high" to extremes.
A young scholar with a searching mind, he stirred from his establishment Presbyterian family to face questions of faith and dogma.
This was what was upsetting to the scholars, who were mostly, on the Christian side, either Anglican divines, Roman Catholic priests, or Presbyterian or Methodist ministers, and, on the Jewish side, if not Orthodox Jews, at least specialists in the literature of Judaism, who approached it with a certain piety.
He had the idea of studying the Koran, but as an outsider (who grew up "vaguely" Presbyterian and considers himself "curious but not religious") instead of an insider, and as an artist more than a scholar.
scholar and Reformer who succeeded John Knox as a leader of the Scottish Reformed Church, giving that church its Presbyterian character by replacing bishops with local presbyteries, and gaining international respect for Scottish universities.
Andrew Melville, (born Aug. 1, 1545, Baldovie, Angus, Scot. died 1622, Sedan, Fr)., scholar and Reformer who succeeded John Knox as a leader of the Scottish Reformed Church, giving that church its Presbyterian character by replacing bishops with local presbyteries, and gaining international respect for Scottish universities.
August 1, 1545 Baldovie, Scotland 1622 Sedan, France Andrew Melville, (born Aug. 1, 1545, Baldovie, Angus, Scot. died 1622, Sedan, Fr)., scholar and Reformer who succeeded John Knox as a leader of the Scottish Reformed Church, giving that church its Presbyterian character by replacing bishops with local presbyteries, and gaining international respect for Scottish universities.
Presbyterian Jazz Society.
