Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent
ISBN-10
1472440765
ISBN-13
9781472440761
Category
Religion
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2015-11-01
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Author
Robert Strivens

Description

Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical congregation in Northampton, England, and ran a training academy for Dissenters which prepared men for pastoral ministry. Offering a fresh look at Doddridge's thought, the book provides a criticial examination of the accepted view that Doddridge was influenced in his thinking primarily by Richard Baxter and John Locke. Exploring the influence of other streams of thought, from John Owen and other Puritan writers to Samuel Clarke and Isaac Watts, as well as interaction with contemporaries in Dissent, the book shows Doddridge to be a leader in an evangelical Dissent which was essentially Calvinistic in its theology, adapted to the contours and culture of its times.

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