The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . He then taught mathe-matics and French for two years at Kenyon College, was acounselor at law from 1840 to 1848, and professor of mathe-matics and astronomy in Southern colleges until 1861. Dur-ing the civil war he was Assistant Secretary of War in theConfederacy He was a contributor to the principal literary,scientific and theological reviews of the United States, andhimself founded, and for several years edited, the SouthernReview; which was generally patronized by the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, supplying, as it did to a large extent,th
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . He then taught mathe-matics and French for two years at Kenyon College, was acounselor at law from 1840 to 1848, and professor of mathe-matics and astronomy in Southern colleges until 1861. Dur-ing the civil war he was Assistant Secretary of War in theConfederacy He was a contributor to the principal literary,scientific and theological reviews of the United States, andhimself founded, and for several years edited, the SouthernReview; which was generally patronized by the MethodistEpiscopal Church, South, supplying, as it did to a large extent,the place of a denominational review. Bledsoe was analytical and incisive. He was an accom- A. T. Bledsoe 1155 plished writer. His martial training developed in him adaring, not to say audacity, which to a remarkable degreewas manifest in his controversial writings. His belief in thedivine realities was so strong, and to him so real, that hewas an uncompromising antagonist of all gainsayers. In 1845 he published his Examination of President Ed-. ALFRED TAYLOR BLEDSOE. wardss Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will, which mustbe regarded as a complete refutation. In 1853 appeared hisTheodicy; or, Vindication of the Divine Glory as Manifestedin the Constitution and Government of the Moral World. 1156 American Methodism The first part shows that the existence of moral evil is con-sistent with Gods holiness, and the second part shows thatthe existence of natural evil, or suffering, is consistent withthe goodness of God. It was published by the Book Concernat New York, and was highly commended by McClintock,the accomplished editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review,as one of the clearest and ablest expositions of the moralgovernment of God that has ever appeared. Bledsoe died at Alexandria, Va., on December i, 1877.
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