Robert William Mackay
Robert William Mackay (1803–1882) was a British philosophical and religious author. He is best known for The Progress of the Intellect (1850). Charles Hardwick in his Christ and other Masters grouped Mackay's religious views, with those of William Johnson Fox and Theodore Parker, as falling under a heading "absolute religion".[1]
Life
Born 27 May 1803 in Piccadilly, London, he was the only son of John Mackay, and was educated at
Mackay was independently wealthy,
Works
Mackay was in the group of
- The Progress of the Intellect, as exemplified in the Religious Development of the Greeks and Hebrews, 1850, 2 vols. Friedrich Creuzer.[8] In the seculatist journal The Reasoner, there was an enthusiastic review in 1851 signed "Panthea" (Sophia Dobson Collet).[9]
- A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Christianity, 1854. It draws heavily on the works of the theologian Ferdinand Christian Baur.[7] It also built on "intellectual religion, the term used in the book for the views of Francis Newman and the "New Reformation" group of writers then gathered around the Westminster Review.[10][11]
- The Tübingen School and its Antecedents: a Review of the History and Present Condition of Modern Theology, 1863
- The Eternal Gospel, 1867 tract in two parts; joint publisher Thomas Scott (1808–1878).[12]
- The Adversaries of St. Paul in 2nd Corinthians, 1875; publisher Thomas Scott.[13]
The Sophistes of Plato, translated, with explanatory Notes and an Introduction on Ancient and Modern Sophistry, 1868, and Plato's Meno, translated, with explanatory Notes and Introduction, and a preliminary Essay on the Moral Education of the Greeks, 1869, were translations.[2]
Family
Mackay married in 1852 Frances Maseres Fellowes, daughter of Robert Fellowes, who survived him.[14]
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-226-92262-1.
- ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ISBN 978-1-4464-2678-4.
- ISBN 978-1-4464-2678-4.
- ISBN 978-0-7190-0557-2.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17562. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-1-119-07247-8.
- ^ The Reasoner. 1851. p. 211.
- ISBN 978-1-137-46389-0.
- ISBN 978-1-317-49346-4.
- ^ Mackay, Robert William (1867). The Eternal Gospel. London, Ramsgate: Williams & Norgate, Thomas Scott.
- ^ Mackay, Robert William (1875). The Adversaries of St. Paul in 2nd Corinthians. Thomas Scott.
- ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1911). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 17. London: Priv. printed. pp. 2–3.
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Mackay, Robert William". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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