John L. Dagg (1794-1884)

Written by Michael Vlach.

Major work

•          Manual of Theology (1857)

Importance

•          First Southern Baptist systematic theologian to be read widely by Southern Baptists

•          Held to Calvinism

•          Refuted Landmarkism

•          Chief concern was holiness of God

•          Came to baptistic view of baptism and rejected infant baptism

•          God known through feelings, natural world, and divine revelation

•          Believed in election and particular redemption

•          Element’s of Moral Science (1859) was a defense of slavery

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