Hugh Mackintosh

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The grave of Hugh Ross Mackintosh, Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh

Hugh Ross Mackintosh (31 October 1870 – 8 June 1936) was a Scottish

theologian, and parish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
in 1932.

Life

He was born in

Halle and Marburg, where he became a particular friend of Wilhelm Herrmann
.

His major theological work was his major study addressing the

T. F. Torrance
dogmatics – (systematic theology).

He was a

Free Church minister at Tayport (1897–1901) and, following the creation of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900, of BeechgroveChurch in Aberdeen (U.F. Church
) (1901–1904), before becoming professor of divinity at New College (1904–1936).

In 1910 he was living at 81 Colinton Road in south-west Edinburgh.[1]

The Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland united in 1929. Mackintosh was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1932.

He died on 8 June 1936 and is buried with his wife, Jessie Air (1877–1951), in Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh, towards the south-east.

Publications

  • The Doctrine of the Person of Christ
  • The Originality of the Christian Message
  • Immortality and the Future of the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Life
  • Selections from the Literature of Theism
  • Types of Modern Theology

See also

References

  1. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910/11
  • Nigel M. de S. et al., Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology, pp. 693–698. T & T Clark, Edinburgh 1993.

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