Charles Foster Kent

Charles Foster Kent was born at Palmyra, New York, and educated at Yale (A. B., 1889; Ph. D., 1891). He studied at the University of Berlin (1891-92). He was an instructor at the University of Chicago 1893-95 and then professor of Biblical literature at Brown. After 1901, he was Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale. In 1922, he helped found the National Council of Schools of Religion, an organization that would two years later become the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, which through conference sponsorship and its Kent Fellows scholarship program played a significant role in church-university activities. In the early 1960's it merged with the Danforth fellows program and became the Society for Religion in Higher Education. In 1975 it was renamed the Society for Values in Higher Education. The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament is one of Kent's most poignant works and a great addition to any Christian Library. Cover photography by Paul Spremulli.