Brightman, Edgar Sheffield(1884–1953)
Edgar Sheffield Brightman was the leading American advocate of personalism. At Boston University he studied under Borden Parker Bowne, the first philosophe...
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A leading exponent of American Personalism, Edgar Sheffield Brightman (1884-1953) was an eminent philosopher of religion. His provocative idea of a God limited in power was a unique effort to solve th...
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Edgar Sheffield Brightman was a philosopher of religion whose influence was greatest from 1930 until about 1960, when shifting social and academic trends led to a decline in interest in the sort of ph...
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