Andrew Constantinides Zenos

Zenos was born in Constantinople on August 13. 1855. He was a Greek orphan, he took the last name Zenos pronounced ksenos. Zenos means "stranger" in Greek. His father was a silk merchant. Zenos initially attended Robert College in Constantinople from 1868 to 1872. He briefly traveled to Athens. He attended the University of Athens. There he studied Greek and Literature. He came to the United States in 1876. He enrolled in the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. He finished his M.A. in 1880. Around the same period famous Greek American Gregory Anthony Perdicaris lived in the same area. He was the president of the Princeton Gaslight Company. Two other prominent Greek American ministers alive around the same period were John Celivergos Zachos and Photius Fisk. Zenos married Ruth Schlager they had three daughters.[5][6]

Zenos was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church on September 29, 1881, and was a pastor in Brandt, Pennsylvania from 1881 - 1883. He joined the faculty of Lake Forest University in Lake Forest, Illinois in 1883. He was professor of Greek at Lake Forest University until 1888. He was rewarded his LL. D. in 1888 from the Princeton Theological Seminary. Zenos migrated to Hartford, Connecticut. He lived there from 1888 to 1891. He was professor of New Testament Exegesis at Hartford Theological Seminary. Around this period he contributed to the book called The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates. In 1891, he moved to Chicago where he lived out the remainder of his life. He became a professor at the McCormick Theological Seminary. He spoke eleven languages. He remained at McCormick Theological Seminary until his death. He was professor of Biblical and Ecclesiastical History and Biblical Theology. He extensively studied demonology and the devil. His interpretation of Satan was published in A Standard Bible Dictionary.[7][8]

Zenos published numerous articles and books on theology. He was a contributing editor to the theological dictionaries and encyclopedias. He also lectured across the United States on theological matters. He was a member of the Presbyterian church for over sixty-one years. From 1920, he served as Dean at McCormick Theological Seminary for fourteen years retiring in 1934.[9] He was seventy-eight years old. He served alongside the first president of McCormick Theological Seminary James Gore King McClure Jr. After his retirement Zenos remained dean emeritus. He was active at McCormick Theological Seminary until his death. In 1936, he received an honorary degree of doctorate in literature from Lake Forest College.[10] Zenos died of Pneumonia at 86 years old in Chicago. He left a sizable fortune to his family.[11][12]

• The Presbyterian Congress (1893)
• The Elements of the Higher Criticism (1895)
• Compendium of Church History (1896)
• The Presbyterian Churches in the United States of America (1897)
• The Accredited Principles of the Higher Criticism (1898)
• The Teaching of Jesus Concerning Christian Conduct (1905)
• The Son of Man: Studies in the Gospel of Mark (1914)[13]

• Loetscher, Lefferts Augustine (1957). The Broadening Church: A Study of Theological Issues in the Presbyterian Church Since 1869. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 9780812270181.