John Sedberry Marshall

John Sedberry Marshall (May 25, 1898 – 1979) was an American scholar whose works focused on topics related to the United States Episcopal Church; he authored studies on the theology of William Porcher DuBose and Richard Hooker.

Early life and career He was born in Fullerton, California and educated at Pomona College (where he graduated with a BA in 1921) and Boston University (where he gained his PhD in 1926). Marshall was the professor of philosophy at Albion College from 1926 until 1946 and professor of philosophy at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee from 1946 until 1968. He was also editor of the Anglican Theological Review during 1959–1965. Norman Pittenger appraised the work as a "convenient, logically developed outline of the whole philosophical-theological view of Du Bose". In his review, Massey H. Shepherd said it was "nothing less than an up-to-date apology for the Book of Common Prayer" and "an outstanding example of how old classics can be made to speak in contemporary accents to living issues of theology".

Personal life Marshall married Elizabeth Southard on May 26, 1923, and they had one son.

Works Books Existence and Value, co-authored with Nikolay Lossky (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1935). The Genius and Mission of the Episcopal Church (Philadelphia: Church Historical Society, 1949). The Word Was Made Flesh: The Theology of William Porscher DuBose, introduction by William T. Manning (Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press at the University of the South, 1949). Hooker's Theology of Common Prayer: The Fifth Book of the Polity Paraphrased and Expanded into a Commentary on the Prayer Book (Sewanee, Tennessee: University Press at the University of the South, 1956). Hooker and the Anglican Tradition: An Historical and Theological Study on Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1963).

Articles 'Logic and Language', The Monist, Vol. 40, No. 3 (July 1930), pp. 453–461. 'From Aristotle to Christ: Or The Philosophy of William Porcher DuBose', The Sewanee Review, Vol. 51, No. 1 (January – March 1943), pp. 148–159. 'Richard Hooker and the Anglo-Saxon Ideal', The Sewanee Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Summer 1944), pp. 381–392. 'Aristotle and the Agrarians', The Review of Politics, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 1947), pp. 350–361. 'Art and Aesthetic in Aristotle', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 12, No. 2 (December 1953), pp. 228–231.