George Smeaton (theologian)

Pastel drawing of Rev George Smeaton

Rev Prof George Smeaton DD (1814–1889) was a Scottish theologian.

Life

He was born in Berwickshire on 8 April 1814.

He studied Theology at Edinburgh University.[1]

He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland at Falkland in Fife in 1839. He left the established church in the Disruption of 1843 to become one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland. His first charge was Auchterarder Free Church. He served as professor of theology at the Free Church College in Aberdeen from 1854 to 1857, and then as Professor of New Testament Exegesis at New College, Edinburgh until his death.[2]

He died at home, 13 South Mansionhouse Road[3] in Edinburgh on 14 April 1889 and is buried in the Grange Cemetery with his wife Janet Helen Goold (d.1893).

Works

  • The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by Christ Himself (1868)
  • Memoir of Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1869)
  • The Doctrine of the Atonement, As Taught by the Apostles (1870)
  • The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (1882).

References

  1. ↑ "Rev Prof George Smeaton". 25 April 2009.
  2. ↑ "George Smeaton". Banner of Truth Trust. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1888-9

Further reading

  • John W. Keddie, George Smeaton: Learned Theologian and Biblical Scholar. Evangelical Press, 2007.
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