Author: James HerveyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Letters from ... James Hervey to ... Frances Shirley
Author: James HerveyLetters from the Late Reverend James Hervey ... to ... Lady Frances Shirley. The Second Edition
Author: James HerveyLetters to the Right Honourable Lady Frances Shirley
Author: James HerveyLetters ... to ... Lady Frances Shirley
Author: James HerveyLetters from the Late Reverend James Hervey ...
Author: James HerveyStemmata Shirleiana: or, The annals of the Shirley family ...
Author: Evelyn Philip ShirleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon
Author: Kevin DeYoungPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000044955
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians, it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment, but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy, embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century, and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor, president, educator, philosopher, should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History, American Religion, Reformed Theology and Calvinism, as well as Scottish and American history more generally.
Enlightened Evangelicalism
Author: Jonathan YeagerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199773157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
John Erskine was the leading evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Educated at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate the epistemology of John Locke and other empiricists alongside key Scottish Enlightenment figures. As a clergyman, he integrated the style and moral teachings of the Moderate Enlightenment into his discourses and posited new theories on traditional views of Calvinism in his theological treatises. While widely recognized as an able preacher and theologian, Erskine's primary contribution to evangelicalism was as a disseminator. He sent countless religious and philosophical works to correspondents like Jonathan Edwards so that he and others could learn about current ideas, update their writings, and provide an apologetic against perceived heretical authors. Erskine also was crucial in the publishing of books and pamphlets by some of the best evangelical theologians in America and Britain. Within his lifetime, Erskine's main contribution was as a propagator of an enlightened form of evangelicalism. While there is a great deal of scholarship on Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley, Yeager argues that it is time to expand the scholarship of eighteenth-century evangelicalism by turning to one of their lesser-studied colleagues. In this new biography of Erskine, Jonathan Yeager lays out the life and thought of a hitherto under-researched - yet, in his day, widely respected - preacher and gives Erskine the scholarly treatment that he so richly deserves.
A Collection of Letters of ... James Hervey
Author: James HerveyCatalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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