Edward Caldwell Moore (1857-1943)

Parkman Professor of Theology, 1902-1915
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, 1915-1929

Edward Caldwell Moore, the younger brother of George Foot Moore, was born on October 15, 1851, also in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Marietta College (Ohio) in 1877 and from Union Theological Seminary in 1884. He received a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1891.

He joined the Harvard faculty in 1902 after serving as the pastor of a Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1889-1902). While at the Divinity School, Moore taught courses largely in post-Reformation theology, spanning from Kant to William James, and authored An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant (1912). In 1915 Moore became the Plummer Professor at the Divinity School and the chairman of the University's Board of Preachers.

Moore also displayed a great interest in Christian missionary activity, authoring the Spread of Christianity in the Modern World (1919), serving as President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and participating in post-WWII Christian relief efforts in Turkey.

Having served the Harvard community for 27 years, the younger Moore retired in 1929.

Source of information:

Dictionary of American Biography. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-1958.