Let's talk about Charles Hodge and his book. Well actually it's a three volume book but we're getting ahead of ourselves.

Charles Hodge was born in 1797 and he died in 1878. His life spans much of the 19th century and was a significant

figure in what we call Old Princeton. Now Princeton University was founded back in 1741, got started about 1746.

What we're talking about is Princeton Theological Seminary.

It was founded in the year 1812 by a man

by the name of Archibald Alexander.

And Hodge was a student early on at Princeton,

but he would come to Phil Archibald Alexander's shoes as the theologian at Old Princeton.

As I mentioned, Hodras born in 1797. His father, who was a physician there in Philadelphia, a very significant

physician, had a substantial reputation. He died seven months after Charles Hodge was born. So Charles Hodge never knew his father.

His father did leave his family some significant resources and had invested some money in the

docks of Philadelphia.

But with the War of 1812, the Hodge family lost all of their holdings in those docks.

Hodges mother used the money from the sale of their home

to purchase a very large home near Princeton.

And she used that large home then

to rent out parts of it to borders

so that the family would have income.

It was during this time that Charles Hodge began his studies as a student at Princeton University,

and Archibald Alexander, who was at Princeton Sem Seminary had just started in 1812.

He would go over to the university and he would see if he could identify some students that

would show promise for the pastoral ministry and one of those students he identified

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