Dan Taylor (1738-1816), baptist leader and pioneering evangelical / Richard T. Pollard ; foreword by Peter J. Morden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollard, Richard T., author.

Contributor:

Morden, Peter J., writer of foreword.

Series:

Monographs in Baptist history ; 9.

Monographs in Baptist history ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, Dan, 1738-1816.

Taylor, Dan.

Baptists--Clergy--Biography.

Baptists.

Evangelicalism--England--History--18th century.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages).

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2018]

Summary:

Dan Taylor was a leading English eighteenth-century General Baptist minister and founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists--a revival movement. This book provides considerable new light on the theological thinking of this important evangelical figure. The major themes examined are Taylor's spiritual formation; soteriology; understanding of the atonement; beliefs regarding the means and process of conversion; ecclesiology; approach to baptism, the Lord's Supper, and worship; and missiology. The nature of Taylor's evangelicalism--its central characteristics, underlying tendencies, evidence of the shaping influence of certain Enlightenment values, and ways that it was outworked--reflect that which was distinct about evangelicalism as a movement emerging from the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival. It is thus especially relevant to recent debates regarding the origins of evangelicalism.Taylor's evangelicalism was particularly marked by its pioneering nature. His propensity for innovation serves as a unifying theme throughout the book, with many of its accompanying patterns of thinking and practical expressions demonstrating that which was distinct about evangelicalism in the eighteenth century.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781532636202

1532636202