The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, George Park

FISHER, George Park (1827—) . An American Congregational clergyman, distinguished as a scholar and historian, he was born at Wrentham, Mass., graduated from Brown University in 1847, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1851. In 1854 he was appointed professor of divinity and college pastor of Yale College, and held the position till 1861, when he was transferred to the professorship of ecclesiastical history in the Yale Divinity School; in 1901 he became professor emeritus. Dr. Fisher is one of the leading Church historians of the United States. He has published: Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity (1865); Life of Benjamin Silliman (1866); History of the Reformation (1873); The Beginnings of Christianity (1877); Faith and Rationalism (1879); Discussions in History and Theology (1880); The Christian Religion (1882); The Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief (1883); Outlines of Universal History (1885); History of the Christian Church (1888); Manual of Christian Evidences (1890); Mature and Method of Revelation (1890); The Colonial Era (1892); Manual of Natural Theology (1893); History of Christian Doctrine, in the “International Theological Library” (1896); Brief History of the Nations (1890).