Biografia Case nacque a Hatfield Point, nel New Brunswick. Conseguì un BA (1893) e MA (1896) in matematica presso l'Università di Acadia. Insegnò matematica al New Hampton Library Institute. Nel 1904, ottenne un BD dalla Yale Divinity School e un dottorato di ricerca nel 1908. Fu assistente professore di interpretazione del Nuovo Testamento alla University of Chicago Divinity School fino al 1925. Era a capo della American Society of Church History.
Ha curato l'American Journal of Theology e il suo successore The Journal of Religion. Case si considerava uno storico del cristianesimo. Era attratto dalla teologia liberale. Era convinto che Gesù fosse una persona storica e criticò gli argomenti dei sostenitori della teoria del mito di Cristo.Clayton R. Bowen. (1912). Review: The Historicity of Jesus and the Gospels. The American Journal of Theology 16 (3): 459–462.Moffatt, James. (1912). Reviewed Work: The Historicity of Jesus by Shirley Jackson Case. The Biblical World 40 (3): 210–211.Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1950. Trinity Press International. pp. 127–133.
Opere principali Libri The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity (1912) The Evolution of Early Christianity: A Genetic Study of First-Century Christianity in Relation to Its Religious Environment (1914)Anonymous. (1917). Reviewed Work: The Evolution of Early Christianity by Shirley Jackson Case. The Biblical World 50 (1): 48. The Revelation of John: A Historical Interpretation (1919) The Social Origins of Christianity (1923) Jesus: A New Biography (1927) Experience With the Supernatural in Early Christian Times (1929) The Social Triumph of the Ancient Church (1933) Makers of Christianity: From Jesus to Charlemagne (1934) Christianity in a Changing World (1941)Latourette, K. (1942). Christianity in a Changing World By Case Shirley Jackson. Church History 11 (1): 68. The Christian Philosophy of History (1943) The Origins of Christian Supernaturalism (1946) Documenti Case, Shirley Jackson. (1910). Is Jesus a Historical Character?: Evidence for an Affirmative Opinion. The American Journal of Theology 15 (2): 205–227. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1910). The Missionary Idea in Early Christianity. The Biblical World 36 (2): 113–125. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). Jesus' Historicity: A Statement of the Problem. The American Journal of Theology 15 (2): 265–268. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). Recent Books on the Question of Jesus' Existence. The American Journal of Theology 15 (4): 626–628. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1911). The Historicity of Jesus an Estimate of the Negative Argument. The American Journal of Theology 15 (1): 20–42. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1913). The Problem of Christianity's Essence. The American Journal of Theology 17 (4): 541–562. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1920). Reviewed Work: The Jesus Problem. A Restatement of the Myth Theory by J. M. Robertson. The Harvard Theological Review 13 (3): 295–296. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1921). The Historical Study of Religion. The Journal of Religion 1 (1): 1–17.
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Bibliografia William J. Hynes. (1981). Shirley Jackson Case and the Chicago School: The Socio-Historical Method. Scholars Press. Louis B. Jennings. (1949). The Bibliography and Biography of Shirley Jackson Case. University of Chicago Press.
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