Shirley Jackson Case
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Born | Hatfield Point, New Brunswick, Canada |
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Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Lakeland, Florida, US |
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Shirley Jackson Case (1872–1947) was a Canadian mathematician, historian of early Christianity, and liberal theologian.
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Biography
Case was born on September 28, 1872, in Hatfield Point, New Brunswick. He received a BA (1893) and MA (1896) in mathematics from Acadia University.[2] He taught mathematics at the New Hampton Library Institute.[2] In 1904, he obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree[2] in 1908.[citation needed] He was assistant professor of New Testament interpretation at University of Chicago Divinity School until 1925.[2] In 1924, he served as President of the American Society of Church History[3] and, in 1926, served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.[4]
He edited The American Journal of Theology and its successor The Journal of Religion. Case considered himself a historian of Christianity. He was drawn to liberal theology.[5] He was convinced that Jesus was an historical person and criticized the arguments of Christ myth theory proponents.[6]
He died on December 5, 1947, in Lakeland, Florida.[2]
Selected publications
Books
- The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity (1912)
- The Evolution of Early Christianity: A Genetic Study of First-Century Christianity in Relation to Its Religious Environment (1914)
- The Revelation of John: A Historical Interpretation (1919)
- The Social Origins of Christianity (1923)
- Jesus: A New Biography (1927)
- Experience With the Supernatural in Early Christian Times (1929)
- The Social Triumph of the Ancient Church (1933)
- Makers of Christianity: From Jesus to Charlemagne (1934)
- Christianity in a Changing World (1941)
- The Christian Philosophy of History (1943)
- The Origins of Christian Supernaturalism (1946)
Papers
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1910). Is Jesus a Historical Character? Evidence for an Affirmative Opinion. The American Journal of Theology 15 (2): 205–227.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1910). The Missionary Idea in Early Christianity. The Biblical World 36 (2): 113–125.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). Jesus' Historicity: A Statement of the Problem. The American Journal of Theology 15 (2): 265–268.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). Recent Books on the Question of Jesus' Existence. The American Journal of Theology 15 (4): 626–628.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). The Historicity of Jesus an Estimate of the Negative Argument. The American Journal of Theology 15 (1): 20–42.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1913). The Problem of Christianity's Essence. The American Journal of Theology 17 (4): 541–562.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1920). Reviewed Work: The Jesus Problem. A Restatement of the Myth Theory by J. M. Robertson. The Harvard Theological Review 13 (3): 295–296.
- Case, Shirley Jackson. (1921). The Historical Study of Religion. The Journal of Religion 1 (1): 1–17.
See also
References
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jesse 2005, p. 450.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Jesse 2005, p. 449.
- ↑ Kumar 2004, p. 50.
- ↑ Attridge & VanderKam 2006, p. 345.
- ↑ Jesse 2005.
- ↑ Bowen 1912; Moffatt 1912; Weaver 1999, pp. 127–133.
Bibliography
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Preceded by | President of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis 1926 |
Succeeded by Irving F. Wood |
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