THEISM: A SURVEY OF THE PATHS THAT LEAD TO GOD CHEIFLY IN THE LIGHT OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.
Nashville, Tenn./Dallas, Tex. Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1901. :. First Edition. Signed presentation from Tigert (to his wife?) on the front endpaper: "Mary Amelia Tigert, Fr. Jno. J. Tigert. 16 Feby. 1901. 20 Feby, 1903." The original 1901 first edition is scarce. Second edition was published in 1902.
John James Tigert III [1856–1906] was an American clergyman, editor and academic. He was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Tigert was a professor of Moral Philosophy at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University, from 1881 to 1890 and was a pastor in Kansas City, Missouri from 1890 to 1894. He became one of the most prominent leaders of the Southern Methodist Church. Tigert fell ill after a chicken bone got stuck in his throat on November 14, 1906 and he died on November 21, 1906, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This title is a detailed study of theology from the early Twentieth Century, discussing its relation to philosophy through history. Small 8vo., embossed cranberry-colored cloth, stamped in gilt; 351 pages. Item #57193
Good (little spotting front cover; contents clean & tight but top corner bumped on about half of the text; few notations on front pastedown & few minor annotations in text).
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