Francis J. Hall

Francis Joseph Hall (1857–1932) was an American Episcopal theologian and priest in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Hall was one of the first to attempt an Anglican systematic theology.^[2]

The Reverend Francis J. Hall
Born	Francis Joseph Hall (1857-12-24)December 24, 1857 Ashtabula, Ohio, US
Died	March 12, 1932(1932-03-12) (aged 74) Baldwinsville, New York, US
Spouse	Prudence Griswold Hall^[1]
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Episcopal Church (United States)
Ordained	1885 (deacon) 1886 (priest)
Academic background
Alma mater	Western Theological Seminary
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Dogmatic theology systematic theology
School or tradition	Anglo-Catholicism
Institutions	Western Theological Seminary General Theological Seminary
Notable works	Dogmatic Theology (1907–1922)

Early life and education

Hall was born on December 24, 1857, in Ashtabula, Ohio,^[3] as the son of Joseph Badger Hall^{[citation needed]} and Juliet E. Giswold Hall^[1] and grandson of John Hall (1788–1869), an early missionary priest in Ohio and later rector of St. Peter's Church, Ashtabula.^[4] He was educated in the local schools in Ashtabula^{[citation needed]} until 1866, when he and his parents moved to Chicago, Illinois.^[5] His grandfather, with his parents' permission, dedicated his life to the church at his birth.^[6] Upon completion of his education in the Chicago public schools, Hall entered Racine College in Racine, Wisconsin,^[5] where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1882 and a Master of Arts degree in 1885.^[7] Graduating as a candidate for holy orders, he went on to study at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and, after two years transferred to the Western Theological Seminary in Chicago (now Seabury-Western Theological Seminary).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Ordained a deacon at St. John's Chapel of Racine College^{[citation needed]} on July 1, 1885, he was advanced to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul^{[citation needed]} on October 11, 1886,^[8] by William E. McLaren, Bishop of Chicago.^{[citation needed]} After his diaconal ordination, he began teaching at Western Theological Seminary and in 1905 was appointed to a professorship of dogmatic theology.^[9] He was also registrar of the Diocese of Chicago from 1894 to 1913^{[citation needed]} and was church counsel in the trial of Algernon Sidney Crapsey in 1906.^[10] In 1913, General Theological Seminary elected him as its professor of dogmatic theology, a position he retained until his retirement in 1928.^[8] As a child he contracted scarlet fever, which handicapped him by partial deafness. In a midlife nervous breakdown, his deafness became total, but he continued to train more than a generation of future Episcopal priests and bishops.^[5]

In 1910 and in 1927, he was a delegate to the World Conferences on "Faith and Order". In 1923, he delivered an important paper at the Anglo-Catholic Conference in the interest of reunion, entitled "The Future of the Church".

Kenyon College awarded him an honorary^{[citation needed]} Doctor of Divinity degree in 1898^[1] and the General Theological Seminary awarded him an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology degree.

Summer ministry

In June 1902, Hall became one of the pioneer summer residents in Onekama, Michigan, on Portage Lake. He immediately purchased property and built a summer home that was completed during his first summer. Obtaining the permission of George D. Gillespie, the first Bishop of Western Michigan, Hall began to celebrate Holy Communion in the study of his summer home to a small group of friends and neighbors. In 1911, he purchased a lakefront lot and arranged for the construction of a chapel to his own design, which was dedicated on August 11, 1912, as the Chapel of St. John-by-the-Lake. Hall remained as priest-in-charge until October 1930, when he resigned no longer able to make the summer trip to Michigan.^[5]

The altar of the chapel is dedicated to Hall's memory.^{[citation needed]} He died in Baldwinsville, New York, on March 12, 1932.^[11]

Published works

• The Doctrine of God. Theological Outlines. Vol. 1. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1892. OCLC 40767391.
  • The Doctrine of God. Theological Outlines. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1905. Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Disseminary.
• The Doctrine of Man and of the God-Man. Theological Outlines. Vol. 2. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1894. OCLC 19053266.
  • The Doctrine of Man and of the God-Man. Theological Outlines. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1915. Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Disseminary.
• The Doctrine of the Church and of Last Things. Theological Outlines. Vol. 3. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1895. OCLC 29422496. Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Disseminary.
• The Historical Position of the Episcopal Church. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1895. OCLC 1046020498. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
• The Kenotic Theory. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1898. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
• Introduction to Dogmatic Theology. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 1. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1907. hdl:2027/hvd.ah4qg8. OCLC 847931.
• Authority, Ecclesiastical and Biblical. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 2. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. (published 1918). 1908. hdl:2027/yale.39002029677185. OCLC 702485952.
• A History of the Diocese of Chicago. Dixon, Illinois: De Witt C. Owen. 1909.^[12]
• The Being and Attributes of God. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 3. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1909. hdl:2027/hvd.ah4qg9. OCLC 343431.
• Evolution and the Fall. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1910. OCLC 1045392133.
• The Trinity. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 4. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. (published 1918). 1910. hdl:2027/yale.39002029677201. OCLC 40283052.
• Creation and Man. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 5. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1912. hdl:2027/yale.39002029677227. OCLC 847952.
• The Incarnation. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 6. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1915. OCLC 509607. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
• The Bible and Modern Criticism. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1915. hdl:2027/hvd.32044023285992. OCLC 81317270.
• The Passion and Exaltation of Christ. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 7. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918. hdl:2027/mdp.39015064332466. OCLC 847963.
• The Church and the Sacramental System. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 8. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1920. hdl:2027/hvd.ah4qgd. OCLC 847937.
• The Sacraments. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 9. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1921. OCLC 250336395. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
• Eschatology: Indexes. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 10. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1922. hdl:2027/hvd.ah4qgg. OCLC 847973.
• Christianity and Modernism. New York: Edwin S. Gorham. 1924. hdl:2027/wu.89097216790. OCLC 5929433.
• Moral Theology. With Hallock, Frank H. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1924. hdl:2027/mdp.39015064335766. OCLC 5019798.
• Christian Union in Ecumenical Light. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1930. OCLC 717990922.
• The Catholic Faith and Modern Scholarship (in Japanese). Translated by Inagaki, Yoichiro. Tokyo: Church Publishing Society. 1934. OCLC 639350695.

References

Footnotes

1. "Dr. F. J. Hall, Theologian, Is Dead at 74". Syracuse Herald. Vol. 52, no. 2686. Syracuse, New York. March 13, 1932. sec. 2, p. 3. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
2. Cox 2004, p. 77; Garrett 2014, pp. 28–29.
3. Armentrout & Slocum 2000; Slocum 2000.
4. Hall 1935, pp. 308–310.
5. Bigler 2012.
6. Hall 1935, p. 308.
7. Armentrout & Slocum 2000; McGrath 1998, p. 133; Slocum 2000.
8. Armentrout & Slocum 2000.
9. McElwain, Norwood & Grant 1936, pp. 302, 304; McGrath 1998, p. 133.
10. The Living Church Annual 1906, pp. 59–62.
11. "Dr. Francis J. Hall, Theologian, Dies: Former Professor at Western and General Seminaries Had Retired When 70". The New York Times. March 13, 1932. p. 7. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
12. Gates 1936, p. 255.

Bibliography

• Armentrout, Don S.; Slocum, Robert Boak, eds. (2000). "Hall, Francis Joseph". An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church. New York: Church Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-89869-701-8. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
• Bigler, Cleon E. (2012) [1959]. St. John-by-the-Lake, Onekama, Michigan, and Its Founder The Rev. Francis Joseph Hall, D.D. Onekama, Michigan: St. John-by-the-Lake. OCLC 51003933.
• Cox, R. David (2004). Priesthood in a New Millennium: Toward an Understanding of Anglican Presbyterate in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Church Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89869-388-1.
• Garrett, James Leo Jr. (2014) [1990]. Systematic Theology. Vol. 1 (4th ed.). Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4982-0659-4.
• Gates, Milo H. (1936). "Deans and Professors". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 5 (3): 238–264. ISSN 2377-5289. JSTOR 42968245. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
• Hall, Francis J. (1910). The Trinity. Dogmatic Theology. Vol. 4. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. OCLC 845862.
•  ———  (1935). "Life of the Rev. John Hall (1788–1869)". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 4 (4): 308–313. ISSN 2377-5289. JSTOR 42968576.
• The Living Church Annual. Vol. 26. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Young Churchman Co. 1906. OCLC 8995819. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
• McElwain, Frank Arthur; Norwood, Percy Varney; Grant, Frederick Clifton (1936). "Seabury-Western Theological Seminary: A History". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 5 (4): 286–311. ISSN 2377-5289. JSTOR 42968248.
• McGrath, Alister E., ed. (1998). "Hall, Francis". The SPCK Handbook of Anglican Theologians. London: SPCK. pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-0-281-05145-8.
• Slocum, Robert B. (2000). "Hall, Francis Joseph". In Carey, Patrick W.; Lienhard, Joseph T. (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-313-29649-9.

Further reading

• Hall, Francis J. (1920). "Bishop Kinsman's Salve Mater: An Address Given Before the Catholic Club, New York City, April 27, 1920". Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Project Canterbury.
•  ———  (1925). "The Anglican Movement for Reunion". Anglican Theological Review. 8 (2): 97–113. ISSN 0003-3286.
•  ———  (1931). "Is the Use of Contraceptives Ever Right?". American Church Monthly. Vol. 29. pp. 63–72. OCLC 1776762. Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Project Canterbury.
•  ———  (2010) [1911]. "Francis J. Hall to the Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, January 9, 1911". Project Canterbury. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
• Mabry, Gregory (1933). "An Appreciation of Francis Joseph Hall, Priest and Doctor". American Church Monthly. Vol. 31. pp. 333–337. OCLC 1776762. Retrieved October 3, 2018 – via Project Canterbury.
• Urban, Linwood (1954). Theology in an Age of Skepticism: A Study of the Writings of Edward S. Drown, Wilbur Cosby Bell, and Francis J. Hall (STM thesis). New York: General Theological Seminary. OCLC 26972559.