Major work
• Systematic Theology
Importance
• Most notable Baptist theologian of the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Taught from a reformed Baptist perspective
• Open to diverse theological opinion
• Moderate Calvinistic view of election
• Said inerrancy was an indefensible position
• Was converted under Charles Finney as a college student
• Held to theistic evolution
• Some thought he was on a slippery slope toward liberalism