Gaius Glenn Atkins
Gaius Glenn Atkins was a Congregational preacher, author, and professor at Auburn Theological SeminaryEarly life and education
He was born in Mount Carmel, Indiana to Thomas Benjamin Atkins and Caroline Morris.
He graduated from Ohio State University in 1888, and was a member of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Cincinnati Law School in 1891, and graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1892. He received a D.D. from Dartmouth and L.H.D. in 1923 from the University of Vermont. In 1933, he obtained his Litt.D. from Ohio State University.Career
He worked at Mount Hermon School from 1892-1894. He was ordained in 1895.
He served churches in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Burlington, Vermont, First Congregational Church in Detroit, Michigan, and at Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island from 1910 to 1917.
He was a professor of Homiletics at Auburn Seminary from 1927-1939.
He authored many titles on religion, including Modern Religious Cults and Movements. One sermon preached at Central Church in 1914 was entitled The Right and Wrong of Feminism. Atkins was critical of religious and other movements such as Bahá'í Faith, Christian Science, Unity Church, New Thought, and Theosophy.
In 1914, he was the winner of the Carnegie Church Peace Union prize for the best essay on international peace.
He preached at Wellesley College in 1916, and gave the Ohio State commencement address in 1933.Family life
He married Ada Haynes in Bellbrook, Ohio in 1892. Children included Helen, Morris, Laurence, and Robert Atkins.Publications
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