Albert C. Knudson

Albert Cornelius Knudson (1873–1953) was a Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and the school of liberal theology known as Boston personalism.

Biography Albert Cornelius Knudson was born on January 23, 1873, in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. He was the son of Rev. Asle Knudsen (1844–1939) and Synnove (Fosse) Knudsen (1842–1916), both of whom were immigrants from Norway. The family eventually moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Asle Knudsen regularly traveled by train to Lake Mills, Iowa to minister at the Danish-Norwegian Methodist Church there until shortly before his death in 1939.

Albert Knudson studied at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (AB 1893) and Boston University (STB 1896, Ph.D. 1900). He attended Jena University and Berlin University (honorary Th.D. 1923). After teaching briefly at the University of Denver and Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, and at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, he began his long career in Boston University where he later became dean of the Boston University School of Theology (1926–1938).

Personal life Albert Knudson was married to Mathilde Johnson (1872–1948) in 1899. He died on August 28, 1953, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected works The Old Testament Problem (1908) Present Tendencies in Religious Thought (1924) The Philosophy of Personalism: A Study in the Metaphysics of Religion (1927) The Beacon Lights of Prophecy: An Interpretation of Amos Hosea, Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Deutero-Isiah (1929) The Doctrine of God (1930) The Doctrine of Redemption (1933) The Validity of Religious Experience (The Fondren lectures) (1937) The Principles of Christian Ethics (1943) Personalism in Theology with Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1943) Basic Issues in Christian Thought (1950)