Samuel Angus
{{Short description|Professor at University of Sydney}}
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Samuel Angus (27 August 1881 – 17 November 1943) was professor of New Testament and Church History at St Andrew's College in the University of Sydney from 1915 to 1943.
Early life
Angus was born near Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, the eldest son of John Cowan Angus, farmer, and his wife Sarah, née Harper. He studied at the Collegiate School, Ballymena, and won a scholarship to Queen's College, Galway, receiving a B.A. in 1902 and an M.A. in 1903. He earned a second M.A. and a PhD from Princeton University. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary, but did not complete a degree.[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/angus-samuel-5032 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, 1979]
Career
In 1912 Angus was licensed as a probationer for the ministry in the United Free Church of Scotland and was appointed as a chaplain Church in Algiers, before being elected to St Andrew's College, University of Sydney in 1915. He held a lectureship at Hartford Theological Seminary from 1906 to 1910 and another in Louisville, Kentucky in 1912. Angus served as Visiting Professor of Education at Columbia University from 1929 to 1931.
Angus also spent some time as the Curator at Nicholson Museum in Sydney.{{cite web |url=https://www.standrewscollege.edu.au/college-loans-artefact-to-museum |title=College Loans Artefact to University Museum |last=Wright|first=A. C.|date= |website=St Andrews College|publisher= |access-date=2023-10-20}}
Angus's outspoken views of Christian theology were criticised by the Presbyterian Church of Australia, leading to formal charges of heresy.[https://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/search/display?dbid=auth&id=35007149 National Library of Australia website, Record ID:35007149 ] Angus was later acquitted of these charges after an investigation conducted by the Juridical Commission of the Church.
Angus rejected many of the core traditional Christian beliefs, including the doctrine of the Trinity, the Biblical inspiration, the virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Christ.{{cite web |url=https://www.pulp-usu.com/opinions/2018/10/25/radical-christianity-3-dr-samuel-angus-the-arch-heretic-of-st-andrews-college |title=Radical Christianity 3 |last=Huang|first=Wilson|date= |website=Pulp Australia|publisher= |access-date=2023-10-20}}
Works
- Truth and Tradition: a Plea for Practical and Vital Religion and for Reinterpretation of Ancient Theologies, Sydney 1934
- The Mystery Religions and Christianity (1925)Republished by Kessinger Publishing, 2003 {{ISBN|0-7661-3101-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7661-3101-9}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=le_pygHyOacC&q=Samuel+Angus&pg=PR23] Mystery Religions by Samuel Angus Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover (June 1967) {{ISBN|0-8216-0123-7}} {{ISBN|978-0821601235}}
- [https://archive.org/details/religiousquestso028175mbp The Religious Quests of the Graeco-Roman World: A Study in the Historical Background of Early Christianity] (June 1929), Biblo-Moser {{ISBN|0-8196-0196-9}} {{ISBN|978-0819601964}}
- The Sources of the First Ten Books of Augustine's De Civitate Dei (1906)Republished: Kessinger Publishing, {{ISBN|1-4365-2222-6}} {{ISBN|978-1436522229}} ASIN: B001KKPOJQ
- [https://archive.org/details/environmentofe00angu The Environment of Early Christianity] (1914), Studies in Theology C. Scribner {{ASIN|B00088EPA0}}
- What Is A Mystery Religion? (?)Republished: Kessinger Publishing, Language: English {{ISBN|1-4254-5591-3}} {{ISBN|978-1425455910}}
- Christianity and dogma (1933), Angus & Robertson {{ASIN|B00088YJZ6}}
- Forgiveness and life (Posthumously 1962); Chapters from an uncompleted book, "The Historical Approach to Jesus." Publisher: Angus and Robertson {{ASIN|B0007JN3FS}}
- The koine: The language of the New Testament (1910) Princeton University Press {{ASIN|B0008BGFM8}}
- Man and the new order (1941), Angus and Robertson {{ASIN|B0007JZWKW}}
- Religion in national life: Address to the University Association of Canberra, 6 October 1933 {{ASIN|00088YJYW}}
- Alms for oblivion: chapters from a heretic's life (1943), Angus and Robertson
Family
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References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Samuel Angus |sopt=t}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050120184143/http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sdgeard/reviews/emil01.html Book review of Susan Emilson's, A Whiff of Heresy: Samuel Angus and the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales]
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