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Nels F. S. Ferré (1908–1971)

Autor de Making Religion Real

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Créditos de la imagen: Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferré, 1956. Taken in his study at Vanderbilt University by Frederick Ferré (son). PhotoShopped for clarity by Damon H. Amyx, 2011.

Obras de Nels F. S. Ferré

Making Religion Real (1900) 45 copias
Faith and Reason. (1946) 27 copias
Know your faith (1959) 25 copias
The Sun and the Umbrella (1953) 18 copias
Christ and the Christian (1958) 15 copias
Return to Christianity (1945) 7 copias

Obras relacionadas

Paul Tillich: Retrospect and Future (1966) — Contribuidor — 14 copias

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Nombre canónico
Ferré, Nels F. S.
Nombre legal
Ferré, Nels Fredrick Solomon
Fecha de nacimiento
1908-06-08
Fecha de fallecimiento
1971-02-06
Lugar de sepultura
Newton Cemetery, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA (naturalized)
Lugar de nacimiento
Lüleå, Sweden
Lugar de fallecimiento
Wooster, Ohio, USA
Lugares de residencia
Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
Wooster, Ohio, USA
Educación
Boston University | A.B. | summa cum laude | 1931
Andover Newton Theological School | B.D. | 1933
Harvard University | Ph.D. | 1939
Ocupaciones
Professor
Relaciones
married to Katharine Louise Pond, 1932
Organizaciones
American Theological Society
Premios y honores
Phi Beta Kappa
Kent Fellowship
President, American Theological Society
Biografía breve
Born 1908 in Sweden, emigrated (alone) to USA at age 13, appointed by Andover Newton Theological School in 1939 to Abbott Professorship of Systematic Theology (oldest chair in theology in USA); appointed by Vanderbilt University Divinity School in 1950 as Professor of Philosophical & Systematic Theology; returned to Abbott Professorship at Andover Newton Theological School in 1957; appointed by Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1965 as Scholar in Residence; appointed by The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, in 1968 as Professor of Philosophy. Died 1971. (Source: Frederick Ferré, son.)

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I loved reading this book during the 1970s, apparently just before the author passed away in 1973, a day shy of his 80th birthday. I read the red hardback copy from the state university library, which had a great philosophical and theological section.
 
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vegetarian | otra reseña | Jul 16, 2017 |
The chapter on Christian Conduct was the one most compelling to me, and most problematic, after the chapters integrating Tillichian analysis.

By classical constructs, Christian theists HAS seen God as transcendent, and this analysis sees that way also, as did Tillich, but is that how modern 21st (then 20th) century Christians should 'do theology' faithfully?

I recall, too, that Ferré sided with the Democratic Socialists of Europe and gave his reasons for doing so.

I studied at Harvard Divinity School with his niece, Faith Victoria Ferré.… (más)
 
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vegetarian | otra reseña | Apr 26, 2013 |

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Miembros
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