Moses Stuart

Moses Stuart (1780-1852) was an American biblical scholar and Congregationalist minister. A Yale graduate, he served as pastor of the Centre Church in New Haven, Connecticut, before becoming professor of sacred literature at Andover Theological Seminary, a post he held from 1810 to 1848. He helped introduce Hebrew studies and German critical scholarship to American students and has been called the father of exegetical studies in the United States. He was not a Universalist; he appears in this collection as the addressee of a published volume of letters replying to his views.

The great exegetical duel of the controversy: Moses Stuart of Andover, the country's foremost biblical scholar, had answered Balfour's Inquiry with his Exegetical Essays; these letters are Balfour's reply, contesting Stuart's Hebrew and Greek point by point. That Andover's champion had to answer a self-taught Charlestown Universalist at all was itself a victory the denomination savored.

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