Numenius of Apamea: The Father of Neo-Platonism

BIOGRAPHY.

05 07Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie was born in Dundee, Scotland, on July 22, 1871. He attended school in Florence, Lausanne, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Brussels, Hadleigh, Edinburgh, and New York, as well as St. Stephen’s College in Annandale, N.Y. He received a B.A., M.A., and G.D. from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1890 and 1893; a Ph.D. from Tulane in 1893; an M.A. from Harvard in 1894; and an M.D. with three gold medals from the Medico-Chirurgical College in Philadelphia in 1903. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1915. He was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1890 and a priest in 1897; he was in charge of All Saints’ Church, N.Y., and served as a Professor in Extension at the University of the South, Sewanee. He has published: The Philosophy of Plotinos; Complete Translation of Plotinos; Message of Philo Judaeus; Of Communion with God; Spiritual Message of Literature; Stories for Young Folks; Why You Really Want to Become a Churchman; Life of Zoroaster, in the Words of his Hymns; The Gâthâs of Zoroaster (Text, Translation, Criticism); The Mother-Tongue Method of Teaching Modern Languages; Limits and Mission of History of Education; and Teachers’ Problems, and How to Solve Them.