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Whyte, Alexander, 1836-1921

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Alexander Whyte (January 13, 1837 - January 6, 1921) was a Scottish divine. He was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire and educated at the University of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh.

He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr RS Candlish at Free St Georges. In 1909 he succeeded Dr Marcus Dods as principal, and professor of New Testament literature, at New College, Edinburgh.

Among his publications are:

Characters and Characteristics of William Law (1893)
Bunyan Characters (3 Vols, 1894)
Samuel Rutherford (1894)
An Appreciation of Jacob Behmen (1895)
Lancelot Andrewes and his Private Devotions (1895)
Bible Characters (5 vols, 1897)
Santa Teresa (1897)
Father John of Cronstadt (1898)
An Appreciation of Browne's Religio Medici (1898)
Cardinal Newman, An Appreciation (1901).

References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

External links

Works by Alexander Whyte at Project Gutenberg

This biographical information was gathered from the Alexander_Whyte page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Bunyan Characters (1st Series)
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
Jacob Behmen an appreciation
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation

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