About James Thompson Bixby
Lived 1843 – 1921 (aged 78). James Thompson Bixby was an American priest.
James Thompson Bixby (July 30, 1843 – December 26, 1921 ) was a United States Unitarian minister and writer.
Biography He was born at Barre, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College (1864) and Harvard Divinity School (B.D., 1870). In Meadville, he was also professor of the philosophy of religion in the Meadville Theological School from 1879 to 1883.
In 1883, he went abroad for study and travel, receiving the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in 1885,
He lectured on the philosophy of religious at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1876 and 1883. He was a member of the Authors' Club and Authors' League of America.
Works Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge (1876; 2nd ed. under the title Religion and Science as Allies, 1889) Evolution and Christianity (1891)
The Crisis in Morals; Examination of Rational Ethics in the Light of Modern Science (1891; 2nd ed. under the title, The Ethics of Evolution, 1900) The New World and the New Thought (1902) The Open Secret (1912) What is Bahaism? (1912)
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United States minister and non-fiction author (1843–1921)
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James Thompson Bixby was born on 30 July 1843 in Barre.
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James Thompson Bixby died on 26 December 1921 in Yonkers.
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James Thompson Bixby was a priest.
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James Thompson Bixby was American.
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