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Peter Taylor Forsyth
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or PETER TAYLOR FORSYTH (1848-), British Nonconformist divine, was born at Aberdeen in 1848. He took first-class honours in classics at Aberdeen, subsequently studied at Gottingen (under Ritschl) and at New College, Hampstead, and entered the Congregational ministry. Having held pastorates at Shipley, Hackney, Manchester, Leicester and Cambridge, he became principal of Hackney Theological College, Hampstead, in 1901. In 1907 he delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale University, published as Positive Preaching and Modern Mind. Among his other publications may be mentioned Religion in Recent Art, and articles in the Contemporary Review, Hibbert Journal, and London Quarterly. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1905.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Peter Taylor Forsyth'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/peter-taylor-forsyth.html. 1910.
