Dan Taylor (1738-1816) Baptist Leader and Pioneering Evangelical: 9 (Monographs in Baptist History)

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 Taylors spiritual formation; soteriology; understanding of the atonement; beliefs regarding the means and process of conversion; ecclesiology; approach to baptism the Lords Supper and worship; and missiology.The nature of Taylors 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.Taylors 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.