Edgar S. Brightman
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Edgar Sheffield Brightman (September 20, 1884 – February 25, 1953) was an American philosopher and Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and liberal theology, and promulgated the philosophy known as Boston personalism.
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Born | Edgar Sheffield Brightman September 20, 1884 Holbrook, Massachusetts, US |
Died | February 25, 1953 (aged 68) Boston, Massachusetts, US |
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Era | Western philosophy |
Region | Contemporary philosophy |
School | Boston personalism |
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Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928,[1] Brightman served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1936[2] and the American Academy of Religion in 1942 and 1943.[3]