Robert Strivens, Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Isaac Watts, the celebrated hymn writer, logician of substance, and a Dissenting minister par excellence in early eighteenth-century, wrote this superlative praise: “if there were any Man, to whom Providence would permit me to commit a second Part of my Life and Usefulness in the Church of Christ,...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718,
Autor principal: Lim, Paul
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: XVII-XVIII 2017
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:Isaac Watts, the celebrated hymn writer, logician of substance, and a Dissenting minister par excellence in early eighteenth-century, wrote this superlative praise: “if there were any Man, to whom Providence would permit me to commit a second Part of my Life and Usefulness in the Church of Christ, Dr. Doddridge should be the Man.” Whereas much has been written about Watts, less historiographical attention has been given to Doddridge, the two counter-examples of G. F. Nuttall and Isabel River...