Flint

Flint, ROBERT, theologian, was born at Dumfries in 1838, educated at the university of Glasgow, and ordained in 1859 to the East Church, Aberdeen, whence he was transferred in 1861 to the parish of Kilconquhar in Fife. In 1864 he was called to the chair of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews, and in 1876 to that of Divinity at Edinburgh. In 1865 he published a volume of discourses, Christ's Kingdom upon Earth. His Philosophy of History in Europe (vol. i., In France and Germany, 1874) established his reputation as a profound thinker and erudite scholar. Rewritten, part of this work appeared in 1894 as Historical Philosophy in France and Switzerland. Theism and Anti-Theistic Theories (1879-80) were the Baird Lectures for 1876 and 1877. Other works are a monograph on Vico (1884) and a treatise on Socialism (1895). Their author is D.D., LL.D., and a corresponding member of the French Institute.