Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian; Volume 1 Letters

Dutton, Anne; Compiled and with and Introduction by Joann Ford Watson

ISBN 10: 0865547947 / ISBN 13: 9780865547940

Edité par Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2003

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SIGNED by Joann Ford Watson on the half-title page. Clean, tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket has one short closed tear on the back panel, else fine. Includes bibliographical references and index. lii, 408pp.

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• Titre: Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian; Volume 1 Letters
• Éditeur: Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0865547947
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780865547940
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Women theologians in the eighteenth century were a rarity. Were there no other reason, this alone would make the literary legacy of the Baptist Anne (Williams) Dutton (1692-1765) significant. In 1731, Anne and her minister husband, Benjamin Dutton, settled in Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire. After Benjamin's death, Anne became known on both sides of the Atlantic primarily through her extensive writings, including tracts, treatises, poems, hymns, and letters. Among her many correspondents were Howel Harris, Selina Hastings, William Seward, Phillip Doddridge, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Harris believed God had entrusted her "with a Talent of writing for Him." Whitefield, who helped promote and publish Anne's writings, commented upon meeting her that "her conversation is as weighty as her letters." She wrestled with the question of whether it was "biblical" for a woman to be a writer of theological matters. But in a tract entitled "A Letter to such of the Servants of Christ, who may have any scruple about the Lawfulness of Printing any thing written by a Woman" (1743), she stated that she wrote not for herself but "only the glory of God and the good of souls." Dutton's writings impacted evangelical revival in England and America. Not since 1884 have any of her writings been readily available. Now extensive portions of her letters, her tracts and booklets, and her poetry and hymns are once again available.