Clarence Beckwith

Clarence Augustine Beckwith (Charlemont, Massachusetts, July 21, 1849 – 1931) was an American theologian and writer. He was a teacher at the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary from 1905.^[1] He lived at Little Deer Isle, Maine.^[2][3]

Beckwith's best known work was The Idea of God, published in 1922. It was positively reviewed by Douglas Clyde Macintosh.^[4]

Selected publications

• contributions to The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge 1883 as "C. A. B."
• Realities of Christian Theology (1906)
• The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive (1922)