A MIssing Comment (Again)_
That pesky comments moderation (more like comment elimination) is up to its tricks again.
Someone sent a comment about Adam Smith an Calvinism, but it has disappeared!
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Thanks
Gavin.
Someone sent a comment about Adam Smith an Calvinism, but it has disappeared!
Would its author send in another comment, please
Thanks
Gavin.
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Hello Gavin Kennedy ,
may I ask you:
the Smith family, parents, were Calvinists; ist that right?
You sure know precisely.
My asking perspective is " The common fate of Liberalism and Christianity " (Frank van Dun).
I too would be interested in your paper ‘Paul Samuelson and the Invention of the Modern Myth of the Invisible Hand’, May 2010 .
Hi Doleys
His parents were protestants (his father died five months before he was born around early June, 1723). His mother is described as very 'religious', and probably a member of the Church of Scotland (though she agreed that young Smith was sent to Oxford on a Snell Exhibition (scholarship), part of which was to graduate as an ordained priest in the Church of England and become a minister in the Episcopalian Church in Scotland (a C of E affiliate).
However, Smith resigned in 1748, and when appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy in 1751, he took the Calvinist Confession of Faith. Evidence suggests he ceased to be a Calvinist, or Christian, later.
I need an email address to send my paper.
Gavin
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