James Lindsay (theologian)

The Rev Dr James Lindsay DD FRSE FGS (1852-1923) was a Scottish minister, theologian and author.

Life

He was born in Ayrshire in 1852, where his father, John Cowan Lindsay, was headmaster of Kilmarnock Grammar School, where he was later educated.

He studied divinity at Glasgow University, graduating MA in 1878. In 1889 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, John Gray McKendrick, James Thomson Bottomley, and Sir James David Marwick. He gained a doctorate (DD) in 1899.[1]

He died at Annick Lodge in Ayrshire on 25 March 1923.

Family

In 1908, aged 56, he married a widow, Margaret R. Barclay-Shaw (née Cook)

Publications

See

• The Significance of the Old Testament for Modern Theology (1896)
• The Teaching Function of the Modern Pulpit (1897)
• Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion (1897)
• Canada: its Commerce, its Colleges and its Churches (1900)
• Studies in European Philosophy (1909)
• The Fundamental Problems of Metaphysics (1910)
• Seven Theistic Philosophers (1920)
• Autobiography of Rev James Lindsay DD (1924) posthumously published by his wife

References

1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.