James Lindsay (theologian)

The Rev Dr James Lindsay DD FRSE FGS (1852 - 25 March 1923) was a Scottish minister, theologian and writer.

James Lindsay
Born1852
Ayrshire
Died25 March 1923
Annick Lodge
OccupationMinister, theologian

Life

He was born in Ayrshire in 1852, where his father, John Cowan Lindsay, was headmaster of Kilmarnock Grammar School, where he was later educated. He studied divinity at Glasgow University, graduating MA in 1878.[1] In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, and Sir James David Marwick. He gained a doctorate (DD) in 1899.[2]

In 1908, aged 56, he married a widow, Margaret R. Barclay-Shaw (née Cook). He died at Annick Lodge in Ayrshire on 25 March 1923.[1]

Theistic idealism

Lindsay outlined a theistic idealism in his works starting with Studies in European Philosophy in 1909 and most notably A Philosophical System of Theistic Idealism, published in 1917.[3][4]

Selected publications

References
  1. "James Lindsay (1852—1923)". Oxford Reference.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. Rogers, A. K. (1909). "Reviewed Work: Studies in European Philosophy by James Lindsay". The Philosophical Review. 18 (6): 668–669.
  4. "Reviewed Work: A Philosophical System of Theistic Idealism by James Lindsay". The Monist. 28 (4): 639–640. 1918.
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