Born: November 5, 1864, Bur­ling­ton, Ver­mont.

Died: March 30, 1945.

Buckham at­tend­ed the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ver­mont (AB 1885, hon­o­rary DD 1904) and An­do­ver The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary. Af­ter ordina­tion in 1888, he served at the Se­cond Church in Con­way, New Hamp­shire, and the Crom­bie Street Church, Sa­lem, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1890-1903). In 1903 he moved to the Pa­ci­fic School of Re­ligion, re­tir­ing as pro­fess­or emer­i­tus in 1937. In 1914, he gave the Nathaniel W. Taylor Lec­tures at Yale Un­i­ver­si­ty. His works in­clude:

• Whence Cometh Help, 1902
• Christ and the Eter­nal Or­der, 1906
• Personality and the Christ­ian Ideal, 1908
• Mysticism and Mo­dern Life, 1915
• Progressive Re­li­gious Thought in Amer­i­ca, 1919
• Religion as Ex­per­i­ence, 1922
• Personality and Psy­chol­o­gy, 1936

Sources

Hymns

1. Hills of God, Break Forth in Singing
2. O God, Above the Drift­ing Years