RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Wrede Wright
and Wales. In theology he described himself as “evangelical and conservative, but quite willing to adopt opinions based on real evidence and not on mere conjectures or hypotheses of scholars however eminent.” He wrote or edited A Grammar of the Modern Irish Language (Dublin, 1855); The Book of Genesis in Hebrew (London, 1859); The Book of Ruth in Hebrew (1864); Bunyan’s Allegorical and Select Poetical Works (1866); The Fatherhood of God, and its Relation to the Person and Work of Christ, and the Operations of the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh, 1867); Zechariah and his Prophecies Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism (Bampton lectures; London, 1879); The Book of Koheleth, commonly called Ecclestastes, Considered in Relation to Modern Criticism and to the Doctrines of Modern Pessimism ((Donellan lectures; 1883); Biblical Essays (Edinburgh, 1886); The Writings of St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland (London, 1887); Introduction to the Old Testament (1890); The Bible Readers’ Manual; or, Aids to Biblical Study (1895); The Service of the Mass in the Greek and Roman Churches (1898); Roman Catholicism: or, The Doctrines of the Church of Rome briefly examined in the Light of Scripture (1896; 4th ed., 1909); The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead examined in the Light of Scripture and Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (1900); The Statutory Prayer Book (in collaboration with J. J. Tomlinson; 1902); A Protestant Dictionary (edited in collaboration with C. Neil; 1904); The Book of Isaiah, and other Historical Essays (1905); Daniel and his Prophecies (1906); Daniel and its Critics (1906); and Light from Egyptian Papyri on Jewish Hist. before Christ (1908).
WRIGHT, GEORGE FREDERICK: Congregationalist; b. at Whitehall, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1838. He was graduated from Oberlin College, Oberlin, O. (A.B., 1859), and Oberlin Theological Seminary (1862), after serving for five months as a private in the Union Army in 1861; held pastorates at Bakersfield, Vt. (1862-72), and Andover, Mass. (1872- 1881); after which he was professor of New-Testament language and literature in Oberlin Theological Seminary (1881-92). Since 1892 he has been professor of the harmony of science and revelation in the same institution. He was also an assistant in the Pennsylvania Geological Survey in 1881-82, and in the United States Geological Survey in 1884-92. Since 1884 he has been editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra, and in addition to briefer contributions, many of them devoted to establishing the harmony of geological discoveries with the accounts of the Bible, has written Logic of Christian Evidences (Andover, 1880); Studies in Science and Religion (1882); An Inquiry concerning the Relation of Death to Probation (Boston, 1882); The Divine Authority of the Buble (1884); The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky (Cleveland, O., 1884); The Ice Age in North America, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man (New York, 1889; 5th ed., 1911); Charles Grandison Finney (Boston, 1891); Man and the Glacial Period (New York, 1892); Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic (1896); Scientific Aspects of Christian Evidences (1898); Asiatic Russia (1902); and Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament History (Oberlin, O., 1907).
WRIGHT, THEODORE FRANCIS: Swedenborgian; b. at Dorchester (now a part of Boston), Mass., Aug. 3, 1845; d. at sea near Alexandria, Egypt, Nov. 13, 1907. He was graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1866) and the New Church Theological School (then at Waltham, Mass., 1868); in 1864-65 he served in the Union Army as first leutenant of the 108th Colored Volunteers; after the completion of his studies was pastor of the Church of the New Jerusalem at Bridgewater, Mass. (1868- 1889); and after 1889 was dean of the New Church Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., where he was professor of history after 1884. He was also honorary American secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund after 1890. In addition to editing The New Church Review after 1893, he wrote The Realities of Heaven (New York, 1880); Life Eternal (Boston, 1885); The Human and its Relation to the Divine (Philadelphia, 1892); and Psalms from Swedenborg’s Latin Translations (Germantown, Pa., 1900).
WRIGHT, THOMAS: Church of England layman; b. at Olney (51 m. n.w. of London), Bucks, May 16, 1859. He was educated at Buxton College, Forest Gate, London; since 1882 he has been principal of Cowper School, Olney. Besides being a trustee and the secretary of the Cowper Museum, formed by the gift of the poet Cowper’s house to the town of Olney in 1900, he is the founder and secretary of the Cowper Society (founded in 1900) and of the John Payne Society (founded in 1905). Theologically he belongs to the Evangelical school of the Church of England. Besides being editor of all works published by the Cowper and John Payne societies, he has edited the letters of Cowper (4 vols., London, 1904); and has written: The Town of Cowper (London, 1886); The Chalice of Carden (1889); The Blue Firedrake (1892); The Mystery of St. Dunstan’s (1892); The Life of William Cowper (1892); The Life of Daniel Defoe (1894); The Acid Sisters (poems; 1897); Hind Head (1898); Ianthe (1900); The Ivory Coffer (poems; 1903); The Life of Edward Fitzgerald (2 vols., 1904); The Life of Sir Richard Burton (2 vols., 1906); The Life of Walter Pater (2 vols., 1907); The Life of Colonel Fred Burnaby (1908); The Life of William Huntington (1909); and Joseph Hart. Being personal Memoirs . . . from unpublished Materials (1910).
WRIGHT, WILLIAM: Orientalist; b. at Mallye or Mallai, on the Nepal frontier, India, Jan. 17, 1830; d. at Cambridge, England, May 22, 1889. He early developed a fondness for oriental languages; studied at St. Andrews, from which he was graduated; then at Halle, devoting his main efforts to Syriac, but acquiring all the Semitic languages together with Sanskrit; and lastly at Leyden; was professor of Arabic at University College, London, 1855-56; and at Trinity College, Dublin, 1856-61, lecturing there on Hindustani; for the opportunity of original work, he held a post in the department of manuscripts at the British Museum, 1861-70; and was professor of Arabic at Cambridge, 1870-89, where he also became a fellow. As a member of the Old-Testament revision committee he had a field for the exercise of his extensive scholarship. His cooperative activity
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