1st Edition
Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent
By Robert Strivens
Copyright 2015
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible? Was traditional Christian teaching about God, humanity, sin and salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith? Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical congregation in Northampton, England, and ran a training academy for... Read more
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
Biography
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.
’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
