Smith, H. Shelton (Hilrie Shelton), 1893-1987 (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from Duke Univ. Libr., Durham for His Papers, 1941-1983 (H. Shelton Smith; Smith, Hilrie Shelton, 1893- ; prof. of religious education, Duke University, Durham, N.C.)

LC data base 2/14/86 (hdg.: Smith, Hilrie Shelton, 1893- ; usage: H. Shelton Smith)

WWA, 1962-63 (Smith, H. Shelton; b. 1893)

NCpedia.org, viewed July 16, 2018 (Smith, H[ilrie] Shelton; Born: 8 May 1893-8 Jan. 1987; H[ilrie] Shelton Smith, teacher and author, was born in McLeansville. In 1915, while enrolled at Elon College, he was ordained to the ministry in the First Congregational Christian Church in Durham; he was graduated from Elon in 1917. Yale University, he first received a B.D. degree and then in 1923 a Ph.D. Later he was granted honorary degrees from Defiance College in Ohio (D.D., 1926) and Elon (Litt.D., 1940). Smith joined the Duke University faculty in 1931 to establish a religious education program. There for a time he taught Christian ethics, the philosophy of religious education, and American religious thought. In 1945 he became James B. Duke Professor of American Religious Thought.) https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/smith-hilrie-shelton

Talbot School of Theology website, viewed July 16, 2018 (H. Shelton Smith (1893-1987): Professor at Duke Divinity School from 1931 to 1963. He was known as an engaging and wide-ranging teacher not only of Christian education but also of Christian ethics and American Christianity. His most lasting contribution to Christian education is his critique of the liberal religious education movement in his book, Faith and Nurture (1941), and his follow-up writings and lectures. His historical study of the varying views of human nature in his Changing Conceptions of Original Sin: A Study of American Theology Since 1750 (1955) symbolizes the direction of his work after his watershed challenge to liberal religious education. As a creative teacher and director of the doctoral program at Duke for 25 years he influenced the lives of many scholars, pastors, and educators throughout the world. Smith continued his valued consulting to the Divinity School and to the church and wider community until his death on January 8,1987 at the Methodist Retirement Home in Durham, N.C.) http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/educators/protestant/h_shelton_smith/