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Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, 1813-1883.

American Presbyterian minister and professor at Princeton.

Originally from New Haven, Connecticut, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater graduated from Yale in 1831.  After a period at Mount Hope in Baltimore, Atwater returned to Yale divinity school in 1833.  He was licensed as a Congregationalist minister in 1835, and found preferment in Fairfield, Connecticut. 

Atwater got involved in the debates surrounding the Presbyterian schism of 1837, and defended the Old School positions.  Atwater began contributing articles to religious reviews, making something of a name for himself.

Atwater published principally in the Princeton Review, then edited by Charles Hodge of the Princeton Theological Seminary.  After being given a D.D. from Princeton university in 1851,  Lyman H. Atwater was appointed professor of moral and mental philosophy at the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1854, where he would remain for the rest of his life.   Following the death of Princeton economist Matthew Boyd Hope in 1859, Atwater began lecturing a dedicated course on political economy at Princeton in 1860. Atwater's title was extended in 1869 to professor of logic, moral and political science at Princeton.  That same year, Atwater became a joint editor of the Princeton Review, which he had contributed numerous articles in his career.

 

  

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Major Works of Lyman H. Atwater

  • The Completion of Two Centuries: Thanksgiving discourse, 1839 [av]
  • "Power of Contrary Choice", 1840, Princeton Review (Oct), p.532
  • "Dr Woodbridge on Revivals - influence of the new divinity on religion", 1842, Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "Dr. Edwards's Works", 1843, Princeton Review, (Jan), p.42
  • "Congregational Councils and Associations", 1845, New Englander (Apr), p.161
  • "The Nature of Christian Sacraments", 1845, New Englander (Jul), p.325
  • "Hon. Robert Minott Sherman", 1846, New Englander (Jan), p.1
  • "Inauguration of President Woolsey", 1847, Princeton Review (Apr), p.173
  • "Coleridge", 1848, Princeton Review (Apr), p.143
  • "The Method of Divine Government", 1851, Princeton Review (Oct), p.598 [moa]
  • "The True Progress of Society", 1852, Princeton Review (Jan), p.16
  • "Outlines of Moral Science by Archibald Alexander", 1853, Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "The Ventilation of Churches", 1853, Princeton Review (Jan), p.121
  • "The Bible in the Counting House", 1853, Princeton Review (Jul), p.390
  • "Doctrinal and ecclesiastical conflicts in Connecticut", 1853, Princeton Review (Oct), p.598
  • "Modern Explanations of the Doctrine of Inability", 1854,  Princeton Review (Apr), p.217
  • "The True Barrier against Ritualism and Rationalism", 1854,  Princeton Review (Oct), p.689
  • "Recent Works on Mental Philosophy", 1855,  Princeton Review (Jan), p.69
  • "Congregationalism", 1855, Princeton Review (Apr), p.239
  • "The Logic of Religion", 1855,  Princeton Review (Jul), p.395 (review of Bowen)
  • "Comte's Positive-Philosophy", 1856,  Princeton Review (Jan), p.59
  • "Mill's System of Logic", 1856,  Princeton Review (Jan), p.88
  • "Miracles and their Counterfeits, 1856,  Princeton Review (Apr), p.255
  • "Lyall's Mental Philosophy", 1856,  Princeton Review (Jul), p.494
  • "The Matter of Preaching", 1856,  Princeton Review (Oct), p.655
  • "The Children of the Church and Sealing Ordinances", 1857 Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "Ferrier's Demonstrative Idealism", 1857,  Princeton Review (Apr), p.258
  • "Moral Insanity", 1857,  Princeton Review (Jul), p.345
  • "Old Orthodoxy, New Divinity and Unitarianism", 1857, Princeton Review (Oct), p.561
  • "Butler's Lectures on Ancient Philosophy", 1858, Princeton Review (Apr), p. [moa]
  • "Brownson's exposition of himself", 1858, Princeton Review (Apr), p. [moa]
  • "Haven's Mental Philosophy", 1858, Princeton Review (Jul), p. [moa]
  • "Jonathan Edwards and Successive Forms of New Divinity", 1858, Princeton Review (Oct), p. [moa]
  • "Religon in Colleges", 1859, Princeton Review (Jan), p.28 [moa]
  • "Transcendentalism in Political Ethics", 1859, Princeton Review (Apr), p.283 [moa]
  • "Hickock's Rational Cosmology", with S. Alexander, 1859, Princeton Review (Apr), p.305 [moa]
  • "Dr Taylor's Lectures on the Moral Government of God", 1859, Princeton Review (Jul), p.489 [moa]
  • "Classification and Mutual Relation of the Mental Faculties", 1860, Princeton Review (Jan), p.43
  • "Reason and Faith", 1860, Princeton Review (Oct), p.648
  • "The New Oxford School, or Broad Church Liberalism", 1861, Princeton Review (Jan), p.59
  • "Liverpool Missionary Conference of 1860, or results of missionary experience", 1861, Princeton Review (Jan), p.122
  • "The Physical Training of Students", 1861, Princeton Review (Apr), p.183
  • "Knowledge, Faith and Feeling, in their Mutual Relations", 1861, Princeton Review (Jul), p.421
  • "Some late Developments in American Rationalism", 1861, Princeton Review (Oct), p.646
  • "The Human Body as related to Sanctification", 1862, Princeton Review (Jan), p.71
  • "The Nature and Effects of Money, and Credit as its Substitute", 1862, Princeton Review (Apr), p.310 (review of J.S. Mill's Principles)
  • "Vindication of Hickock's Philosophy", 1862, Princeton Review (Jul), p.388
  • "A Plea for High Education and Presbyterian Colleges", 1862, Princeton Review (Oct), p.635
  • "Hopkins's Moral Science", 1863, Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "The Manner of Preaching", 1863, Princeton Review (Apr), p.177
  • "Witherspoon's Theology", 1863, Princeton Review (Oct), p.596
  • "The Children of the Covenant, and their Part in the Lord", 1863, Princeton Review (Oct), p.622
  • "Shedd's History of Christian Doctrine", 1864, Princeton Review (Jan), p.152
  • "The War and National Wealth", 1864, Princeton Review (Jul), p. 449
  • "Whedon and Hazard on the Will", 1864, Princeton Review (Oct), p.679
  • "Herbert Spencer's Philosophy, Atheism, Pantheism and Materialism", 1865, Princeton Review (), p. [moa] [repr. in British and Foreign Evangelical Review, 1865, p.609]
  • "The late National Congregational Council", 1865, Princeton Review (), p
  • "Imperfect Rights and Obligations as Related to Church Discipline", 1866, Princeton Review (Jan), p.94
  • "Dr Spring's Reminisces of his Life and Times", 1866, Princeton Review (Apr), p.288
  • "Rationalism",1866, Princeton Review (Jul), p.329
  • "McCosh on J.S. Mill and Fundamental Truth", 1866, Princeton Review (Jul), p.416
  • "Ecce Homo", 1866, Princeton Review (Oct), p.631
  • Manual of Elementary Logic, 1867 [bk], [rev ed, bk, av]
  • The Life and character of Nathaniel Hewitt, D.D, 1867 [av]
  • "Drs Hedge and Woolsey on College Studies and Government", 1867, Princeton Review (Jan), p.31
  • "Emmanuel Swedenborg", 1867, Princeton Review (Apr), p.214
  • "Recent Discussions concerning Liberal Education", 1867, Princeton Review (Oct), p.585 (on Whewell, Mill, etc.)
  • "Dr. George Duffield on the Doctrines of the New-school Presbyterians", 1867, Princeton Review (Oct), p.655
  • "Truth Charity and Unity", 1868, Princeton Review (Apr), p.169
  • "Professor Fisher on the Princeton Review and Dr. Taylor's Theology",  1868, Princeton Review (Jul), p.368
  • "The General Assembly",  1868, Princeton Review (Jul), p.410
  • "The Province and Uses of Quarterly Reviews", 1871, Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "The General Assembly",1871, Princeton Review (Jan),  (Jul), p.424
  • "Total Abstinence and its Scriptural Basis", 1872, Presbyterian Quarterly & Princeton Review, (Jan), p.93
  • "The Labor Question in its Economic and Christian Aspects", 1872, PQ & Princeton Rev (Jul), p.468
  • "Preaching Christ", 1872 PQ & Princeton Rev (Jul), p.549
  • "Beneficiary Education for the Ministry", 1873 PQ & Princeton Rev (Jan), p.119
  • "General Assembly", 1873 PQ & Princeton Rev (Jul) p.514
  • "The Late Commercial Crisis", 1874, Princeton Review (Jan), p.100
  • "Taxation of Churches, Colleges and Charitable Institutions", 1874, Princeton Review (Apr) p.340
  • "Calvinism in Doctrine and Life", 1875, PQ & Princeton Rev (Jan), p.73
  • "Our Industrial and Financial Situation", 1875, PQ & Princeton Rev (Jul), p.517
  • "The Currency Question", 1875, PQ & Princeton Rev (Oct), p.721
  • "Civil Government and Religion, 1876, PQ & Princeton Rev (Apr), p.195
  • "The Great Awakening of 1740", 1876, PQ & Princeton Rev (Oct), p.676
  • "The Revivals of the Century", 1876, PQ & Princeton Rev (Oct), p.690
  • "The Higher Life and Christian Perfection", 1877, PQ & Princeton Rev  (Jul), p.389
  • "The Great Railroad Strike" 1877, PQ & Princeton Rev  (Oct), p.719
  • A Discourse commemorative of the late Dr. Charles Hodge, 1878 [bk]
  • "The State in Relation to Morality, Religion, and Education", 1878, Princeton Review, p.395
  •  "The Supremacy of Conscience and of Revelation", 1879, Princeton Review,  (May), p.671
  • "The A Priori Novum Organum of Christianity" 1879, Princeton Review,  (Nov), p.517
  • Notes on Metaphysics, from lectures given, 1880 [av]
  • "Political Economy a Science -- of What?", 1880,  Princeton Review (May), p.420
  • "Christian Morality, Expediency and Liberty", 1881, Princeton Review (Jan), p.61
  • "The Regulation of Railroads", 1881, Princeton Review (May) p.406
  • "The Future Paper Money of this Country", 1882, Princeton Review (Jan), p.1
  • "Proposed Reforms in Collegiate Education", 1882, Princeton Review, (Jul), p.100

 
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Resources on  Lyman H. Atwater

  • Addresses delivered at the funeral of Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, 1883 [bk]
  • "Atwater, Lyman H." in 1871, Princeton Review, p.94
  • "Atwater, Lyman H." in 1888, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
  • Atwater page at Princeton University library
  • Wiki

 

 
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