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Robert Flint
1838–1910
A Scottish theologian and philosopher, he wrote with unusual range on religion, ethics, history, and sociology. His books brought big intellectual questions to a broad nineteenth-century audience without losing their seriousness.
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Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876
by Robert Flint
About the author
Born in Dumfriesshire on March 14, 1838, Robert Flint was educated at local schools and at the University of Glasgow. He became a minister in the Church of Scotland and later moved into university teaching, building a reputation as a clear and wide-ranging thinker.
Flint taught moral philosophy and political economy at the University of St Andrews before becoming Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He was known not only as a theologian but also as a philosopher and writer on sociology, and he published works on themes such as theism, anti-theistic thought, Vico, social philosophy, and the history of ideas.
He died on November 25, 1910. Remembered as a major Scottish intellectual of his time, Flint stood out for the breadth of his scholarship and for the way he connected religious thought with philosophy and the study of society.