Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

ISBN-13: 9780367597887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Robert Strivens

Opis

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 R

Recenzje

’Philip Doddridge was the most representative figure of orthodox Dissent in eighteenth-century England. Welcoming the Evangelical Revival, he trained a large number of ministers at his academy in Northampton to transmit the gospel message of the Independent denomination on a firm intellectual foundation. In this book Robert Strivens has written a clear and persuasive analysis of the mind of Doddridge that shows why he was so influential in his century.’ David Bebbington, University of Stirling, UK

Spis treści

Introduction; Baxterianism and moderate Calvinism; Subscription, scripture and Trinitarianism; The influence of John Locke; Natural theology, natural law and reason; Preaching Evangelicalism; Christian spirituality; Doddridge and his circle; Conclusion

O autorze

Robert Strivens is the Principal of London Theological Seminary, where he teaches Church History and New Testament. His doctoral research at the University of Stirling was on the thought of Philip Doddridge. He was in the legal profession for fifteen years, before training for pastoral ministry at LTS and then pastoring a church in Banbury.