George William Knox

George William Knox, D.D., LL.D. (1853 – 1912) was an American Presbyterian theologian and writer, born at Rome, New York. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1874, and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1877, after which he went as a missionary to Japan, where he was professor of homiletics in Tokyo and professor of philosophy and ethics at the Imperial University of Tokyo.[1]

For the British soldier, see George Williams Knox.
George William Knox, D.D., LL.D.

Following his return to the United States, he was pastor at Rye, New York. In 1897–1899 he lectured at Union Theological Seminary.[2]

Works

He published in Japanese:

  • A Brief System of Theology
  • Outlines of Homiletics
  • The Basis of Ethics
  • The Mystery of Life;

and in English:

  • A Japanese Philosopher (1893)
  • The Christian Point of View, with Francis Brown and A. C. McGiffert (1902)
  • The Direct and Fundamental Proofs of the Christian Religion (1903, 1908)
  • Japanese Life in Town and Country (1904)
  • Imperial Japan (1905)
  • The Spirit of the Orient (1906)
  • The Development of Religion in Japan (1907)
  • The Gospel of Jesus (1909)
  • "Christianity" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). 1911.
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References
  1. "Knox, John J." . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
  2. Harry Emerson Wildes (1933). "Knox, George William". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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