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220HODGES, GEORGEBibliographyA. A Companion for the Altar (New York, 1804); An Apology for Apostolic Order and ItsAdvocates (New York, 1807); The Churchman (New York, 1819); Sermons on thePrincipal Events and Truths of Redemption, 2 vols. (New York, 1824); The Correspondenceof John Henry Hobart, ed. Arthur Lowndes, 6 vols. (New York, 1911–12).B. AAP 5, 440–53; ANB 10, 894–95; DAB 9, 93–94; DARB, 244–45; DCA, 535–36; EARH,312–13; EDC, 246; MM, 140–56; NCAB 1, 514–15; NCE 7, 42; SH 5, 302; JohnMcVickar, The Early Life and Professional Years of Bishop Hobart (Oxford, 1838);John N. Norton, Life of the Rt. Rev. John Henry Hobart (New York, 1857); R.W.Wertz, “John Henry Hobart, 1775–1830: Pillar of the Episcopal Church” (Ph.D.diss., Harvard University, 1967); Robert Bruce Mullin, Episcopal Vision / AmericanReality: High Church Theology and Social Thought in Evangelical America (NewHaven, 1986).HODGES, GEORGE (6 October 1856, Rome, N.Y.—27 May 1919, Holderness,N.H.). Education: A.B., Hamilton College, 1877; graduated from Berkeley DivinitySchool, Middletown, Conn., 1881. Career: Assistant minister, CalvaryChurch, Pittsburgh, and priest-in-charge, St. Stephen’s Church, 1881–89; rector,Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, 1889–94; dean and professor of homiletics and pastoraltheology, Episcopal Theological School, 1894–1919.George Hodges, a progressive clergyman concerned about the practical applicationof Christianity to the conditions of modern existence, was born in Rome,New York, in 1856. After graduating from Hamilton College and Berkeley DivinitySchool, he was ordained to the diaconate in June 1881 and to the priesthoodalmost exactly one year later. He served pastorally at Calvary Church in Pittsburghbetween 1881 and 1894. As rector of Calvary, he led the parish in supportingpolitical and social reform in Pittsburgh and in launching a settlement house.Named Kingsley House, this institution reflected Hodges’s ecumenical spirit; itwas begun in 1893 with the help of Unitarians, Roman Catholics, and others.Declining election as bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Oregon, he accepted aninvitation to become dean of the Episcopal Theological School (ETS) in Cambridge,Massachusetts, where he became one of the leading theological educatorsof his day.Influenced by the writings of the English priests Charles Kingsley and FrederickDenison Maurice, Hodges was a strong advocate of the social gospel. InThe Administration of an Institutional Church (1906), he urged attention to thesocial, economic, and recreational requirements of parish members as well as totheir spiritual needs. He also believed the church needed to confront such issuesas universal education, decent housing, and fair wages for workers. As dean atETS, Hodges introduced courses in sociology into the curriculum. His convictionthat seminarians needed training both in theology and in sociology was part of