Selected spiritual writings of Anne Dutton : eighteenth-century, British-Baptist, woman theologian /
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Author / Creator: | Dutton, Anne, 1692-1765. |
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Uniform title: | Works. Selections. 2003 |
Imprint: | Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2003- |
Description: | volumes ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Baptists Baptists. |
Subject: | Christian life -- Baptist authors. Christian life -- Baptist authors. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5065141 |
Summary: | 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 anyscruple 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. |
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Physical Description: | volumes ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0865547947 9780865547940 0865547955 9780865547957 0865549087 9780865549081 9780881460292 088146029X 9780881461541 0881461547 9780881460537 0881460532 9780881464986 0881464988 |