J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism

J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
Author: Crawford Gribben
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-03-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190932341

John Nelson Darby is best known as the architect of the most influential system of end-times thinking among the world's half-a-billion evangelicals. This book re-examines Darby's thought and argues that claims that Darby is the father of dispensationalism may need to be revised.

A Forgotten Christian Deist

A Forgotten Christian Deist
Author: Jan van den Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000417859

This is a cultural and intellectual biography of a neglected but important figure, Thomas Morgan (1671/2–1743). Educated at Bridgewater Academy, he was active as Presbyterian preacher, medical practitioner, and one of the first who called himself a Christian Deist. Morgan was not only a harbinger of the disparagement of the Old Testament, but also a prolific pamphleteer about things religious, and a publisher of medical books. He received praise for his medical work, but a negative press for his theological visions, and he ended as a forgotten figure in history; this book restores an overlooked writer to his due place in history. It is the first modern biography of Morgan and its readership comprises historians of deism, the enlightenment, the eighteenth century, theology and the church, Presbyterianism, and medical history.