James Lindsay (theologian)
{{short description|Scottish minister, theologian and writer}}
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| name = James Lindsay
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|birth_date = 1852
|birth_place = Ayrshire
|death_date = 25 March 1923
|death_place = Annick Lodge
| occupation = Minister, theologian}}
James Lindsay FRSE FGS (1852 - 25 March 1923) was a Scottish minister, theologian and writer.
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.[https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100106819 "James Lindsay (1852—1923)"]. Oxford Reference. 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.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}
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.
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.{{cite journal|year=1909|author=Rogers, A. K.|title=Reviewed Work: Studies in European Philosophy by James Lindsay|journal=The Philosophical Review|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2177686|volume=18|issue=6|pages=668–669|doi=10.2307/2177686|jstor=2177686|hdl=2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t25b0pk07|hdl-access=free}}{{cite journal|year=1918|title=Reviewed Work: A Philosophical System of Theistic Idealism by James Lindsay|journal=The Monist|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27900719|volume=28|issue=4|pages=639–640|jstor=27900719}}
Selected publications
- The Significance of the Old Testament for Modern Theology (1896)
- The Teaching Function of the Modern Pulpit (1897)
- [https://archive.org/details/recentadvancesin00lindrich Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion] (1897)
- Canada: its Commerce, its Colleges and its Churches (1900)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005757752 Studies in European Philosophy] (1909)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005761984 The Fundamental Problems of Metaphysics] (1910)
- [https://archive.org/details/philosophicalsys00linduoft/page/n1/mode/2up A Philosophical System of Theistic Idealism] (1917)
- [https://archive.org/details/sevemtheisticphi00lindrich Seven Theistic Philosophers] (1920)
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001384106 Autobiography of Rev James Lindsay DD] (1924) posthumously published by his wife
References
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Category:Scottish Christian theologians
Category:Scottish non-fiction writers