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Archibald Alexander Hodge (July 18, 1823 – November 12, 1886), an American Presbyterian leader, was
the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886.[1]

Archibald Alexander Hodge

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Hodge circa 1860-1870

3rd Principal of Princeton Theological Seminary

In office

1878–1886
Preceded by

Charles Hodge

Succeeded by

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

Personal details

Born

July 18, 1823

Princeton, New Jersey

Died

November 12, 1886 (aged 63)

Princeton, New Jersey

Parents

Charles Hodge

Occupation

Pastor

Contents

BiographyEdit

He was born on July 18, 1823 to Sarah and Charles Hodge in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] He was named
after Charles' mentor, the first principal of Princeton Seminary, Archibald Alexander.

Hodge attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1841 and then Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1847.[1]

He served as a missionary in India for three years (1847–1850). He held pastorates at Lower West
Nottingham, Maryland (1851–1855), Fredericksburg, Virginia (1855–1861), and Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania (1861–1864). In 1864 he accepted a call to the chair of systematic theology in Western
Theological Seminary (later Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There he
remained until in 1877 he was called to Princeton to be the associate of his father, Charles Hodge, in the
distinguished chair of systematic theology. He took on the full responsibilities of the chair of systematic
theology in 1878.[2]
He died on November 12, 1886 in Princeton, New Jersey from "a severe cold ... which settled in his
kidneys".[1]

InfluenceEdit

At the time of his death, he was a trustee of the College of New Jersey and a leader in the Presbyterian
Church. His interests extended beyond religion. He touched the religious world at many points. During
the years immediately preceding his death he did not slacken his work, but continued his work of
writing, preaching, lecturing, making addresses, coming into contact with men, influencing them, and by
doing so widening the influence of Christianity. Among the most influential was an article titled
Inspiration that began a series in the Presbyterian Review which established the discipline of biblical
theology as a historical science. This article was coauthored with B. B. Warfield in 1880.[3]

CharacteristicsEdit

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Hodge's distinguishing characteristic as a theologian was his power as a thinker. He had a mind of
singular acuteness, and though never a professed student of metaphysics, he was essentially and by
nature a metaphysician. His theology was that of the Reformed confessions. He had no peculiar views
and no peculiar method of organizing theological dogmas; in this he may be identified with his father,
who claimed at the end of his life that he had taught and written nothing new. Though he taught the
same theology that his father had taught before him, he was independent as well as reverent. His first
book and that by which he is best known was his Outlines of Theology (New York City, 1860; enlarged
ed., 1878; reprinted 1996, ISBN 0-85151-160-0), which was translated into Welsh, modern Greek, and
Hindustani. The Atonement (Philadelphia, 1867; reprinted 1989, ISBN 0-685-26838-1) is still one of the
best treatises on the subject. This was followed by his commentary on the Westminster Confession of
Faith (1869, ISBN 0-8370-0932-4), a very useful book, full of clear thinking and compact statement. He
contributed some important articles to encyclopedias – Johnson's, McClintock and Strong's, and the
Schaff-Herzog (the Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia furnished the kernel from which this article developed).
He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Review, to the pages of which he was a frequent
contributor.

SermonsEdit

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In the pulpit, Hodge had few sermons, and he preached them frequently. They were never written nor
deliberately planned. They grew from small beginnings and, as he went through the process of thinking
them over as often as he preached them, they gradually became more elaborate.
PublicationsEdit

The Rule of Faith and Practice

The Protestant rule of faith

The Rules of Interpreting Scripture

The Holy Scriptures - Canon and Inspiration (Part 1) (Part 2)

The Inspiration of the Bible

Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith

God - His Nature And Relation To The Universe

Assurance and Humility

A Short History of Creeds and Confessions

God's Covenants With Man--The Church

Baptism

The Mode of Baptism

Sanctification (revised by B.B. Warfield)

Free Will

Outlines of Theology

Justification (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Predestination

Selected Essays by Archibald Alexander Hodge

A commentary on the Confession of Faith : with questions for theological students and Bible classes

(1869) https://archive.org/details/commentaryonconf00hodguoft (Robarts - University of Toronto)

(1869) https://archive.org/details/acommentaryonthe00hodguoft (Knox - University of Toronto)

(1869) https://archive.org/details/commentaryonconf00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary

Library)

(1901 printing) https://archive.org/details/commentaryonconf1901hodg (Princeton Theological

Seminary Library)

A commentary on the confession of faith [of the Assembly of divines] ed. by W.H. Goold (1870)

https://archive.org/details/acommentaryonco00hodggoog (Oxford University)

 Comentario de la Confesion de fe de Westminster de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (1897)

https://archive.org/details/comentariodelaco00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

The atonement (1867)

(1867) https://archive.org/details/theatonement00hodguoft (Trinity College - University of Toronto)

(1867) https://archive.org/details/atonement00hodguoft (Robarts - University of Toronto)

(1867) https://archive.org/details/atonement00publgoog (New York Public Library)

(1867) https://archive.org/details/atonement00hodg (New York Public Library)

Outlines of theology

(1860) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo1860hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary

Library)

(1861) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

(1863) https://archive.org/details/outlinestheolog03hodggoog (Harvard University)

(1863) (ed. by W.H. Goold) https://archive.org/details/outlinestheolog01hodggoog (Oxford

University)

(1865) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo1865hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary

Library)

(1866) https://archive.org/details/outlinestheolog02hodggoog (unknown library)

(1876) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheo00hodg (New York Public Library)

(1877) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo00hodguoft (Emmanuel - University of Toronto)

(1878) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo1878hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary

Library)

(1879) https://archive.org/details/outlinesoftheolo1879hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary

Library)

(1879) (ed. by W.H. Goold) https://archive.org/details/outlinestheolog00hodggoog (Oxford

University)

There is also a companion to this book by William Passmore (1873)A compendium of evangelical
theology given in the words of holy Scripture https://archive.org/details/acompendiumevan00unkngoog

The life of Charles Hodge ... professor in the Theological seminary, Princeton, N.J. (1880)

https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharleshodg00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharleshod00hodg0 (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharlesh00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

 https://archive.org/details/lifeofcharleshod00hodgrich (University of California Libraries)

https://archive.org/details/lifecharleshodg01hodggoog (University of California)

https://archive.org/details/lifecharleshodg02hodggoog (New York Public Library)

(1881) https://archive.org/details/lifecharleshodg00hodggoog (Oxford University)

Popular lectures on theological themes (1887)

https://archive.org/details/popularlectures00hodggoog

https://archive.org/details/popularlectures00publgoog

https://archive.org/details/popularlectures00hodguoft

https://archive.org/details/popularlectureso00hodg

Inspiration (1881) (Reprinted from the Presbyterian review, April, 1881)

https://archive.org/details/inspiration00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

Westminster doctrine anent holy scripture : tractates by professors A. A. Hodge and Warfield (1891)

https://archive.org/details/westminsterdoct00howi (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

Manual of forms for baptism, admission to the communion, administration of the Lord's Supper,
marriage and funerals : conformed to the doctrine and discipline of the Presbyterian Church (1877)

https://archive.org/details/manualofformsfor00hodg

https://archive.org/details/manualofforms00hodg

(1882 copyright, 1883 published) https://archive.org/details/manualofforms00hodguoft (Emmanuel

- University of Toronto)

The system of theology contained in the Westminster shorter catechism opened and explained (1888)
https://archive.org/details/systemoftheology00hodg

Questions on the text of the Systematic Theology of Dr. Charles Hodge : together with an exhibition of
various schemes illustrating the principles of theological construction (by A. A. Hodge)(1885)

https://archive.org/details/questionsontexto00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

Address at the funeral of the Rev. Henry Augustus Boardman, D.D. (1881)

https://archive.org/details/addressatfuneral00hodg (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

Van Dyke, Joseph Smith (1886) Theism and evolution : an examination of modern speculative theories
as related to theistic conceptions of the universe. With an introduction by Archibal Alexander Hodge

https://archive.org/details/theismandevolut00vanduoft (Trinity College - University of Toronto)

https://archive.org/details/theismevolutione00vand (Princeton Theological Seminary Library)

ArticlesEdit

Hodge, Archibald Alexander (1878). "The Ordo Salutis". The Princeton Review. 1: 304–321. Retrieved
2013-03-23.

Hodge, Archibald Alexander (March 1886). "Open Letters: Christian Union". The Century; A Popular
Quarterly. 31 (5): 798–801. Retrieved 2013-03-23.

Hodge, Archibald Alexander (December 1883). "Morality and Religion". The North American Review.
137 (325). Retrieved 2013-03-23.

ReferencesEdit

"Archibald Alexander Hodge" (PDF). The New York Times. November 13, 1886. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

Terry, Milton (April 1912). "Biblical Scholars of the United States in 1882". The Biblical World. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. 39 (4): 225–234 [230]. doi:10.1086/474575. JSTOR 3141861.

Smith, Henry (April 1912). "Thirty Years of Biblical Study". The Biblical World. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. 39 (4): 235–242 [240]. doi:10.1086/474576. JSTOR 3141862.

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Preceded by

Charles Hodge Principal of Princeton Theological Seminary

1878–1886 Succeeded by

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

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