Smith, Henry B.; Karr, William S. [editor]. System of Christian Theology. New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1884. First Edition. [11836]
Black cloth, some fraying at the ends & corners, joints good, 9 1/2 x 6 inches, tight. Ex Bangor Theological Seminary library, with book plate and standard markups. xiv., 630 clean pp., publisher's catalogue. Good. Hardcover.
Professor Smith's lectures as they were given in the year 1857, using the Professor's sketches of his lectures, and several sets of notes taken by his students. "The result is that the following exhibition of his views in theology is much fuller than that which he was able to impart to any one class during the years of lecturing to successive classes." - Preface.
Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877)d, "New School Presbyterian theologian and historian. Born of Unitarian parents in Portland, Maine, Smith was converted during a revival at Bowdoin College and later prepared for the ministry at Andover and Bangor seminaries. He also studied in Germany from 1838 to 1840, where he was heavily influenced by German philosophy and theology, especially that of Georg W. F. Hegel and the mediating theology of Friedrch A. G. Tholuck, Ernst W. Hengstenberg and Johann A. W. Neander. Smith was appointed professor of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst College in 1847 and moved to Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1850 to teach first church history and then systematic theology (1853-1874). A. C. Guelzo, Dictionary of Christianity in America (IVP).
