William Greenough Thayer Shedd (June 21, 1820 - November 17, 1894), American Presbyterian, was born in Acton, Massachusetts. June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Acton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts about twenty-four miles west-northwest of Boston along Massachusetts Route 2 past Concord. ...

In 1839 he graduated at the University of Vermont, and in 1843 at Andover Theological Seminary . After a short pastorate at Brandon, Vermont, he was successively professor of English literature in the University of Vermont (1845-1852), professor of sacred rhetoric in Auburn Theological Seminary (1852-1854), professor of church history in Andover Theological Seminary (1854-1862), and, after one year (1862-1863) as associate pastor of the Brick Church of New York City, of sacred literature (1863-1874) and of systematic theology (1874-1890) in Union Theological Seminary. He died in New York City on the 17th of November 1894. The University of Vermont The University of Vermont is a university in Burlington, Vermont. ... Brandon, Vermont Brandon is a town located in Rutland County, Vermont. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian. ... Andover Theological Seminary, now part of Andover Newton Theological School, is the oldest graduate school of theology in the United States. ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... The tower at Union Theological Seminary Union Theological Seminary is an independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan, in New York City. ...

Dr Shedd was a high Calvinist and was one of the greatest systematic theologians of the American Presbyterian church. His great work was Dogmatic Theology (3 vols, 1888-1894). In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. ...

He also wrote:

• Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1856), in which he applied to history the doctrine of organic evolution
• Discourses and Essays (1856)
• A Manual of Church History (2 vols, 1857), a translation of Guericke
• A History of Christian Doctrine (2 vols, 1863)
• Theological Essays (1877)
• Literary Essays (1878)
• Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1879)
• The Doctrine of Endless Punishment (1885)
• he edited Coleridge's Complete Works (7 vols, New York, 1894).

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