Educating for the Good Life

Abstract

Dr. Laurence F. Kinney has been elected to the Albert Bruce Curry Chair of Bible at Southwestern, and will assume his new duties at the beginning of the second semester of the 1943-44 session. He will be associated with Professor T. E. Hill in this department of the college. Dr. Kinney is a native of West Virginia,a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. He holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has done graduate work in theology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the Bennett Wood Greene fellowship from the University of Virginia. He has held two pastorates in Virginia, taught philosophy at the College of William and Mary, and theology at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. He comes to Southwestern from the General Assembly's Training School at Richmond, where he has been professor of Bible and Theology.