Albert Cornelius Knudson (1873–1953) was aChristian theologian in theMethodist tradition, associated withBoston University and the school ofliberal theology known asBoston personalism.^[3][4]

Albert Cornelius Knudson was born on January 23, 1873, inGrand Meadow,Minnesota. He was the son of Asle Knudson (1844-1939) and Synnove (Fosse) Knudsen (1842-1916), both of whom were immigrants fromNorway. The family subsequently moved toSaint Paul, Minnesota. Asle Knudson regularly traveled by train to Grand Meadow to minister at theDanish-NorwegianMethodist Church until shortly before his death in 1939.^[5][6]

Albert Knudson studied at theUniversity of Minnesota,Minneapolis (AB 1893) andBoston University (STB 1896, Ph.D. 1900). He attendedJena University andBerlin University (honorary Th.D. 1923). After teaching briefly at theUniversity of Denver andBaker University,Baldwin City, Kansas, and atAllegheny College,Meadville, Pennsylvania, he began his long career inBoston University where he later became dean of theBoston University School of Theology (1926-1938).^[7]

Albert Knudson was married to Mathilde Johnson (1872–1948) in 1899. He died on August 28, 1953, at his home inCambridge,Massachusetts.

• The Old Testament Problem (1908)
• Present Tendencies in Religious Thought (1924)
• The Philosophy of Personalism: A Study in the Metaphysics of Religion (1927)
• The Beacon Lights of Prophecy: An Interpretation of Amos Hosea, Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Deutero-Isiah (1929)
• The Doctrine of God (1930)
• The Doctrine of Redemption (1933)
• The Validity of Religious Experience (The Fondren lectures) (1937)
• The Principles of Christian Ethics (1943)
• Personalism in Theology with Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1943)
• Basic Issues in Christian Thought (1950)

• Deats, Paul (Ed.) (1986)The Boston Personalist Tradition (Mercer University Press)ISBN 978-0865541771
• Brightman, Edgar Sheffield (1979)Personalism in Theology: a Symposium in Honor of Albert Cornelius Knudson by Associates and Former Students (New York: AMS Press. reprint of the 1943 ed. published by Boston University Press)ISBN 0404590861

• Albert C. Knudson portrait (1896)

• 1873 births
• 1954 deaths
• 20th-century American Protestant theologians
• 20th-century Methodists
• Methodists from Minnesota
• American people of Norwegian descent
• Boston University School of Theology alumni
• Boston University School of Theology faculty
• Methodist theologians
• People from Mower County, Minnesota
• Systematic theologians
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• American university and college faculty deans

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