Name Douglas Macintosh | ||
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Died 1948, Hamden, Connecticut, United States Books Theology as an Empirical Science, The Problem of Knowledge, The Reasonableness of Christianity | ||
Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1877–1948) was a theologian who did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and then joined Yale in 1909, becoming an assistant professor of systematic theology. In 1916 he was named the Dwight Professor of Theology and later served as the chairman of the Religion Department from 1920 to 1938. He is also notable for a 1931 Supreme Court case. A decade and a half later in 1946 the Supreme Court court would overturn itself, ruling 5-3 against the "arms-bearing pledge." He alongside Henry Nelson Wieman, George Burman Foster, and Shailer Mathews is considered a shaper of "modernistic liberalism".
The W.W. I chaplain's chalice of former Yale University Dwight Professor of Theology Douglas Clyde Macintosh was given to the Yale Law School and accepted by Dean Harold Koh in September 2008 to honor the famous 1931 Supreme Court case, Macintosh v. United States,in which John W. Davis argued Professor Macintosh's right to "selective conscientious objection" in Macintosh's application as a Canadian for U.S. citizenship. http://www.law.yale.edu/news/8334.htm
Professor Macintosh's three quarter length portrait hangs in the Common Room of Yale Divinity School. It depicts him with his right hand toward a Bible opened to the commandment "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and his left hand extended toward a bound volume of United States v. Macintosh, 1931. The portrait was painted in 1979 by New Haven artist Clarence Brodeur, past President of the Board of Trustees of the Fontainebleau Association, and editor the Fontainebleau School Alumni Bulletin.