Douglas Clyde Macintosh

Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1877–1948) was a theologian who did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and then joined Yale in 1909, becoming an assistant professor of systematic theology. In 1916 he was named the Dwight Professor of Theology and later served as the chairman of the Religion Department from 1920 to 1938. He is also notable for a 1931 supreme court case.^[1][2][3] A decade and a half later in 1946 the Supreme court would overtun itself, ruling 5-3 against the "arms-bearing pledge."^[4] He alongside Henry Nelson Wieman, George Burman Foster, and Shailer Mathews is considered a shaper of "modernistic liberalism".

The W.W. I chaplain's chalice of former Yale University Dwight Professor of Theology Douglas Clyde Macintosh was given to the Yale Law School and accepted by Dean Harold Koh in September 2008 to honor the famous 1931 Supreme Court case, Macintosh v. United States,in which John W. Davis argued Professor Macintosh's right to "selective conscientious objection" in Macintosh's application as a Canadian for U.S. citizenship. http://www.law.yale.edu/news/8334.htm

Professor Macintosh's three quarter length portrait hangs in the Common Room of Yale Divinity School. It depicts him with his right hand toward a Bible opened to the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and his left hand extended toward a bound volume of United States v. Macintosh, 1931. The portrait was painted in 1979 by New Haven artist Clarence Brodeur, past President of the Board of Trustees of the Fontainebleau Association, and editor the Fontainebleau School Alumni Bulletin.

Works

• Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1911). The Reaction Against Metaphysics in Theology .... University of Chicago. http://books.google.com/books?id=F_kRAAAAYAAJ.  (1911)
• Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915). The Problem of Knowledge. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=Hly8AK-LiZoC.  (1915),^[5] Macmillan
• Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919). Theology as an Empirical Science. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xjl3YGycnikC.  (1919), Macmillan
• George Burman Foster, Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1921). Christianity in Its Modern Expression. Macmillan. http://books.google.com/books?id=gRA3AAAAMAAJ.  (1921) co-authored with George Burman Foster, Macmillan
• Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1931). Religious Realism. The Macmillan company. http://books.google.com/books?id=c6BAAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1.  co-authored with Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1931), Macmillan
• Eugene Garrett Bewkes, Julius Seelye Bixler, Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1937). The Nature of Religious Experience. Harper & Brothers. http://books.google.com/books?id=PLFAAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1.  (1937)
• Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1939). Social Religion. C. Scribner's Sons. http://books.google.com/books?id=jGNbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1.  (1939) Charles Scribner's Sons
• Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1942). Personal Religion. C. Scribner's sons. http://books.google.com/books?id=3_g4AAAAIAAJ&pgis=1.  (1942) Charles Scribner's Sons

References

1. ^ Question of Conscience Time - Jan 25, 1932
2. ^ "Court Denies Citizenship to Dr. MacIntosh", New York Times - Jan 10, 1930
3. ^ New York Times - May 26, 1931 "CITIZENSHIP DENIED TO ARMS OBJECTORS; Supreme Court Bars Dr. Macintosh of Yale and Miss Bland for Pacifist Views. BENCH IS DIVIDED, 5 TO 4 Chief Justice Hughes and Three Others Dissent--Decision Is Based on Schwimmer Case. Contrary Views of Justices. CITIZENSHIP DENIED TO ARMS OBJECTORS Demands Unqualified Allegiance. Hughes Praises MacIntosh. Cites Oath of Officials." (5-4 against. 4 Dissenters Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone, and Charles Evans Hughes).
4. ^ NEW CITIZEN FREED OF OATH TO FIGHT, New York Times - Apr 23, 1946
5. ^ Quote about text:BY DOUGLAS CLYDE MACINTOSH PH D Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology in Yale University Cloth 8vo $2 jo For more than a century the problem of knowledge has been the cockpit of philosophers A large part of this work which is mainly occupied with the problem of acquaintance the problem of truth and the problem of the scientific method of proof is devoted to an exposition and critique of recent and contemporary doctrines Many of the most interesting and important of these have not yet found their way into the histories of philosophy and some have been up to the present practically inaccessible to English readers Three of the twenty chapters are given to dualism and agnosticism five to idealism and four to the new realism Intellectualism and pragmatism also receive detailed attention

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Name	Macintosh, Douglas Clyde
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Date of birth	1877
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Date of death	1948
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