The Life and Thought of John Gill (1697-1771) : : A Tercentennial Appreciation / / edited by Michael A.G. Haykin.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 77
• TeilnehmendeR: Haykin, Michael A.G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 77.; Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume of essays focuses on the thought of John Gill, the doyen of High Calvinism in the transatlantic Baptist community of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among the topics covered are Gill's trinitarian theology, his soteriological views, his Baptist ecclesiology, and his use of Scripture. Other papers are more focused, examining, for instance, his clash with the Arminian Methodist leader John Wesley over the issues of predestination and election, a clash that decisively shaped Wesley's perspective on Calvinism. The tercentennial of Gill's birth in 1997 is a fitting occasion to issue this study of a man whose systematic theology and exposition of the Old and New Testaments formed the mainstay of many eighteenth-century Baptist ministers' libraries and who has never been the subject of a major critical study.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Acknowledgments / M.A.G. Haykin -- Notes on Contributors / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Abbreviations / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Chronological Table of the Life of John Gill (1697-1771) / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Introduction / Michael A.G. Haykin -- Chapter One John Gill (1697-1771): His Life and Ministry / Robert W. Oliver -- Chapter Two John Gill and the Reformed Tradition: A Study in the Reception of Protestant Orthodoxy in the Eighteenth Century / Richard A. Muller -- Chapter Tiiree John Gill's Doctrine of Believer Baptism / Stanley K. Fowler -- Chapter Four John Gill as Interpreter of the Old Testament / Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. -- Chapter Five John Gill's Approach to New Testament Exposition / Thomas K. Ascol -- Chapter Six John Gill and the Evangelical Awakening / Tom J. Nettles -- Chapter Seven John Gill and Calvinistic Antinomianism / Curt Daniel -- Chapter Eight A Fire that Burns within: The Spirituality of John Gill / Gregory A. Wills -- Chapter Nine "The Weaker Vessel": John Gill's Reflections on Women, Marriage and Divorce / Sharon James -- Chapter Ten The Ecclesiology of John Gill / Timothy George -- Index of Persons and Places / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Index of Subjects / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought / Editor: Michael A.G. Haykin.