Charles HodgeCharles Hodge (December 27, 1797 – June 19, 1878) was a Reformed Presbyterian theologian who served as the president of Princeton Theological Seminary from 1851 until 1878. He was a key proponent of Princeton Theology, an orthodox Calvinist theologicl movement that flourished in America during the nineteenth century. He contended vehemently for the Bible's authority as God's Word. Many of his beliefs were embraced by Fundamentalists and Evangelicals in the twentieth century. Hugh Hodge, Charles Hodge's father, was the son of a Scotsman who emigrated from Northern Ireland in the early eighteenth century. Hugh graduated from Princeton College in 1773 and went on to practice medicine in Philadelphia after serving as a military surgeon during the Revolutionary War. In 1790, he married well-bred Bostonian orphan Mary Blanchard. The Hodges' first three sons perished in the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793 and another in 1795. Hugh Lenox, their first child to survive childhood, was born in 1796. Hugh Lenox would go on to become an obstetrics expert, and he remained especially close to Charles, often aiding him financially. On December 27, 1797, Charles was born. Read More Read Less