Thomas Cuming Hall An American

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 Presbyterian

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 theologian

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, son of the Rev. John Hall (1829-98)

John Hall (Presbyterian pastor)

Reverend John Hall, D.D., L.L.D. was Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, from 1867 until he died in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1898. The landmark New York church, which still stands today on Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, was built during his tenure.-Biography:Said of Dr...

. He was born at Armagh

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, Ireland

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, graduated from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 1879 and from Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in 1882, and studied at Berlin

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 and Göttingen 1882-83. Ordained in 1883, he held pastorates at Omaha

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, Neb.

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 (1883–86), and Chicago

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 (1886–97), and in 1898 became professor

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 of Christian ethics at Union Seminary. In 1914 he was chosen to be Roosevelt professor at the University of Berlin during 1915-16. He was decorated with the order of the Crown by the Emperor of Germany

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. His writings include:

• The Power of an Endless Life (1893)
• The Social Meaning of the Modern Religious Movements in England (1900)
• The Messages of Jesus According to the Synoptists (1901; 1908)
• John Hall, Pastor and Preacher: A Biography by his Son (1901)
• Social Solutions in the Light of Christian Ethics (1910)
• The History of Ethics within Organized Christianity (1910)
• Historical Setting of the Early Gospel (1912)
• Religion and Life (1913)