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B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
1821–1883
An English-born Methodist preacher and philosopher, he brought wide learning and a restless, adventurous life to his writing. His books connect Christian belief with Greek thought and show why he became a well-known teacher of philosophy in nineteenth-century America.
2 Audiobooks
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
The Theistic Conception of the World An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern Thought
by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
About the author
Born in Yorkshire in 1821, Benjamin Franklin Cocker was raised in the Wesleyan tradition and began preaching while still young. Before settling into academic life, he spent years in business, lived in Australia, and eventually moved to the United States in the 1850s.
Cocker became a Methodist minister and later taught at the University of Michigan, where he was known for mental and moral philosophy. A university history notes that he was appointed in 1869 after President Erastus Otis Haven resigned, and contemporary reference works describe him as an eloquent preacher as well as a scholar.
He wrote on philosophy, religion, and apologetics, with works including Christianity and Greek Philosophy, The Theistic Conception of the World, Lectures on the Truth of the Christian Religion, and The Student's Handbook of Philosophy. He died in 1883, leaving behind books that aimed to make big philosophical and theological questions clear to students and general readers alike.