During my religious life, I have had a very intimate association
with the various religious, moral, social, and political questions
and movements which have agitated and moulded thought in America
and the world at large, and with many of the leading minds who gave
form and direction to these great movements. As a student of
theology and Biblical science, and of all the sciences, as a
preacher of the everlasting Gospel, and as a Professor of Mental
and Moral Philosophy and Theology, I have had occasion to ponder,
and weigh, and determine, with great care and circumspection, the
various problems of natural, mental, moral, and theological
science, together with the doctrines of the diverse schools in
philosophy and religion. As a theologian I have, as the result of
the most careful and candid inquiry and research, passed from the
extreme bounds of Calvinism to the quite opposite pole of the
evangelical faith. . . . Here, as the result of all my inquiries
and diverse experiences, I find myself, on this my eighty-second
birthday, in the full and blissful assurance of the Divine origin
and authority of the Holy Scriptures of both Testaments, of the
doctrine of the Sacred Trinity, of atonement by the blood of
Christ, of regeneration, of justification and sanctification by
faith, of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, of immortality, and
"eternal judgment;" and holding all these and kindred truths in
"the full assurance of faith," "full assurance of hope," and "full
assurance of understanding," I have been urged by individuals in
whose judgment I place great confidence, and who have had an
intimate acquaintance with my habits of self-reflection, to write
out, for the benefit of the Church and the world, my own
intellectual, moral, and spiritual autobiography. After prayerful
consideration I yielded to such advice. Hence the following
treatise. ASA MAHAN (1799-1889) was America's foremost Christian
educator, reformer, philosopher, and pastor. He was founding
president of two colleges and one university, where he was able to
inspire numerous reforms, publish authoritative philosophical
texts, and promote powerful revivals like his close associate
Charles Finney. He led the way on all important fronts while being
severely persecuted. He introduced the new curriculum later adopted
by Harvard, was the first to instruct and grant liberal college
degrees to white and colored women, advised Lincoln during the
Civil War, and among many other remarkable achievements, was a
father to the early evangelical and holiness movements.
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