Influential Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton Vol. 1 : Eighteenth-Century British Baptist Writer-Letters

by Dutton, Anne; Ford, Joann; Watson, Joann Ford

• ISBN13: 9780865547940
• ISBN10: 0865547947
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

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 any scruple about the Lawfulness of Printing any thing written by a W

Author Biography

Joann Ford Watson, is the H. R. Gill Family Professor of Theology at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio

Table of Contents

Portrait of Anne Dutton	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Anne Dutton Memorial Stone (1887)	p. ix
Anne Dutton Memorial Plaque	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
Bibliography	p. xlv
A Letter from Mrs. Anne Dutton. To the Reverend Mr. G. Whitefield	p. 1
Letters to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley: against Perfection: as Not Attainable in This Life	p. 5
A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley. In Vindication of the Doctrines of Absolute, Unconditional Election, Particular Redemption, Special Vocation, and Final Perseverance /etc./	p. 37
Selections from Letters on Spiritual Subjects Addressed to Relatives and Friends	p. 85
Transcription of the Text of the 1822 Memorial Stone	p. 403
Index	p. 405
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