Edgar S. Brightman

Edgar S. Brightman
Edgar S. Brightman
Born	Edgar Sheffield Brightman; September 20, 1884; Holbrook, Massachusetts, US
Died	February 25, 1953 (aged 68); Boston, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater	Brown University; Boston University; University of Berlin; Marburg University;
Era	Western philosophy
Region	Contemporary philosophy
School	Boston personalism
Institutions	Nebraska Wesleyan University; Wesleyan University; Boston University;
Doctoral students	L. Harold DeWolf; Georgia Harkness; Martin Luther King Jr.;
Main interests	Theology
Notable ideas	Transcendent empiricism; rational empiricism; finitistic theism;

Edgar Sheffield Brightman (September 20, 1884 – February 25, 1953) was an American philosopher and Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and liberal theology, and promulgated the philosophy known as Boston personalism.

Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928, Brightman served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1936 and the American Academy of Religion in 1942 and 1943.

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