Dr. Shailer Mathews: of the University of Chicago

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DR. SHAILER MATHEWS of the University of Chicago
Lectures on Timely Topics



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DR. SHAILER MATHEWS


Rising Generation amd Moral


Dr. Shailer Mathews, editor and educator, has been secured to fill a limited number of lecture engagements under Redpath management.




Dr. Mathews has had a splendid opportunity to study international affairs at first hand.  He has made a special study of the French Revolution and has been interested in social problems of many kinds.




In his lecture, 
The American Spirit in Action,
 he points out the share which America has had in the formation of the modern world both in the shaping of democracy and the building up of a new type of international relations.  He endeavors to point out that America has discovered a method of adjusting difficulties and that, by history and practice, this nation stands in no need of fear of Russian socialism.




In his lecture, 
The United States and the Orient,
 he gives in an interesting way the actual history of the United States and the Orient.  He points out how different the American policy has been from that of other nations and also calls attention to some of the difficulties which, to some extent, are developing even now.




Dr. Mathews is Dean of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.





From 
Who's Who In America



Mathews, Shailer, educator, editor; b. at Portland, Me., May 26, 1863; s. Jonathan Bennett and Sophia Lucinda (Shailer) M.; brother of Edward Bennett M. (q. v.); A. B., Colby Coll., 1884, A. M., 1887; grad. Newton Theol. Instn., 1887; U. of Berlin, 1890–1; (D. D., Colby, 1901, Oberlin Coll., 1908, Brown Univ., 1914; LL. D., Pa. College, 1915, m Mary Philbrick Elden, of Waterville, Me., July 16, 1890.  Asso. prof. rhetoric, 1887–9, prof. history and polit. economy, 1889–94, Colby Coll.; asso. prof. N. T. history and interpretation, 1894–7, prof., 1897–1905, prof. systematic theology, 1905–6, hist. and comparative theology since 1906, jr. dean Div. Sch., 1899–1908, dean since 1908, U. of Chicago. Lecturer on N. T., Newton Theol. Instn., 1888–90; editor The World Today, 1903–11, Biblical World, 1913—, Pres. Western Econ. Soc., 1911—, Chicago Co-operative Council of City Missions, 1908–15, Chicago Bapt. Exec. Council, 1910—; dir. religions work, Chautauqua Instn. (N. Y.), 1912—; pres. Federal Council Chs. of Christ in America, 1912–16, Northern Bapt. Conv., 1915; trustee Ch. Peace Union (founded by Andrew Carnegie), 1913—. With Dr. Sidney L. Gulick in Japan as rep. of the chs. of U.S., 1915; delivered Haverford Library lectures, 1907, Earle lectures (Berkeley, Cal.), 1913, William Belden Noble lectures, Harvard, 1916.  Clubs:  Quadrangle, University, City.  Author:  Select Mediaeval Documents, 1891, 1900; The Social Teaching of Jesus, 1897; A History of New Testament Times in Palestine, 1899; Constructive Studies in the Life of Christ (with E. D. Burton), 1901; The French Revolution—A Sketch, 1901; Principles and Ideals for the Sunday School (with E. D. Burton), 1903; The Messianic Hope in the New Testament, 1905; The Church and the Changing Order, 1907; The Social Gospel, 1909; The Gospel and the Modern Man, 1909; Scientific Management in the Churches, 1911; The Making of Tomorrow, 1913; The Individual and the Social Gospel, 1914; The Spiritual Interpretation of History, 1916.  Editor:  New Testament Handbook; The Bible for Home and School; Social Betterment Series; Woman Citizen's Library Series.  Asso. Editor:  Dictionary of the Bible; Am. Journal of Theology; Constructive Series of U. of Chicago.  State see. of war savings for Ill., 1917–18.