Orello Cone

Orello Cone (1835-1905) was a Universalist minister, educator, and the denomination's leading biblical scholar of the late nineteenth century. Born in Lincklaen, New York, he taught biblical languages and literature at the Canton Theological School of St. Lawrence University and served as president of Buchtel College in Akron, Ohio, from 1880 to 1896. One of the earliest American advocates of German higher criticism of the Bible, he published studies including Gospel-Criticism and Historical Christianity (1891) and Paul, the Man, the Missionary, and the Teacher (1898).

Essays by the denomination's leading biblical scholar, written for church readers rather than the learned journals: doctrine and practical religion treated with the critical care that made Cone's reputation, but in plain English. A companion to his Gospel-Criticism (also in this collection), showing how the new biblical science was translated for the Universalist pew.

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Proof that Universalist scholarship could meet the Germans on their own ground. Cone — professor at the denomination's theological school in Canton and later president of Buchtel College — here surveys the higher criticism of the Gospels and its bearing on Christian faith, in a study respected by critical scholars in Europe as well as America. It marks the denomination's passage from proof-text controversy to modern biblical science, carried out by its most internationally recognized scholar.

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