Raymond Bernard Blakney (1895–1970)
Author of Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation
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Works by Raymond Bernard Blakney
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- Birthdate
- 1895-11-04
- Date of death
- 1970-10-24
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS|civil engeneering, 1918)
Boston University (S.I.T.|theology, 1918)
Williams College (DD|theology, 1941)
Congregational Church (Ordination, 1918) - Occupations
- professor (mathematics and physics)
pastor
missionary
college president
writer
translator (Chinese, middle high German) (show all 8)
army chaplain
army major - Organizations
- Fukien Christian University, Foochow
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Olivet College
Orlinda Childs Pierce College for Girls at Elleniko, Greece
Army Corps of Chaplains (1918-1919)
Army Corps of Chaplains (China, 1945) - Relationships
- Hung, William (mentor, colleague)
- Short biography
- Works: Meister Eckhart: a modern translation, 1945; A Course in the Analysis of Chinese Characters, 1925, second edition 1948; The Way of Life: Lao Tzu, 1955; and An Immanuel Kant Reader, 1960.
While in China, Blakney co-authored four English-Chinese bi-lingual works: The Life and Teachings of Jesus, The Life and Teachings of Paul, Selections from the Old Testament, and Some Fell Into Good Ground: Sermons Preached In the Congregational Churches of North China 1947-1948. - Cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- Foochow, China
Sanford, Maine, USA
Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Peking, China
Mindanao, Philippines
Olivet, Michigan, USA (show all 8)
Elleniko, Greece
Claremont, California, USA - Place of death
- Scripps College Library, Claremont, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Meister Eckhart: The celebrated 14th Century mystic and scholastic: A central source and inspiration of dominant currents in philosophy and theology since Aquinas, w/the text of his historic Defense by Meister Eckhart
Helped me figure out the reasons I relied on religion at the time.
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