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Leonard Woods
Leonard Woods (June 19, 1774 – August 24, 1854)
[1] was an American
theologian . He was widely known for upholding orthodox
Calvinism over
Unitarianism .
In 1796, Woods graduated from
Harvard , and was soon ordained pastor in 1798 of the
Congregational Church at
West Newbury, MA . He was the first professor of
Andover Theological Seminary and between 1808 and 1846, occupied the seminary's chair of
Christian theology . He helped establish several societies including the
American Tract Society , the
American Education Society , the
Temperance Society , and the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . Woods was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1812.
[2]
Woods was also an influential and outspoken proponent of slavery in the run-up to the
American Civil War . He helped organize a petition drive among ministers to support the
Compromise of 1850 and help stamp out antislavery clergy.
[3]
His son-in-law,
Edward A. Lawrence, Sr. , was a pastor, professor, and author.
[4]
[5] Woods' grandson,
Edward A. Lawrence, Jr. , was the namesake of
Lawrence House Baltimore .
Works
His six primary works are:
Lectures on the Inspiration of the Scriptures (1829)
Memoirs of American Missionaries (1833)
Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection (1841)
Lectures on Church Government (1843)
Lectures on
Swedenborgianism (1848)
History of Andover Seminary completed by his son,
Leonard Woods, Jr. (1848)
References
^ Bowden, Henry Warner, ed. (1977).
"Woods, Leonard" . Dictionary of American religious biography (1st ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp.
530–531 .
ISBN
0-8371-8906-3 .
^
"Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
^ Applegate, Debby (2006).
The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher (1st pbk ed.). Three Leaves Press. p.
246 .
ISBN
978-0-385-51397-5 .
^ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). "Alumni 1834".
Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College: From the First Graduation in 1771 to the Present Time, with a Brief History of the Institution (Public domain ed.). Riverside Press. p. 273. Retrieved 28 April 2022 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain .
^ Phillips, Charles W. (11 June 2018).
Edwards Amasa Park: The Last Edwardsean: The Last Edwardsean . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
ISBN
978-3-647-56030-4 . Retrieved 28 April 2022 .
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