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See also:EMMONS, See also:NATHANAEL (1745–1840) , See also:American theologian, was See also:born at See also:East Haddam, See also:Connecticut, on the 2oth of See also:April 1745. He graduated at Yale in 1767, studied See also:theology under the Rev. See also:John Smalley (1734–1820) at See also:Berlin, Connecticut, and was licensed to preach in 1769. After See also:preaching four years in New See also:York and New See also:Hampshire, he became, in April 1773, pastor of the Second See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Franklin (until 1778 a See also:part of Wrentham, See also:Massachusetts), of which he remained in See also:charge until May 1827, when failing See also:health compelled his relinquishment of active ministerial cares. He lived, however, for many years thereafter, dying of old See also:age at Franklin on the 23rd of See also:September 184o. It was as a theologian that Dr Emmons was best known, and for See also:half a See also:century probably no clergyman in New See also:England exerted so wide an See also:influence. He See also:developed an See also:original See also:system of divinity, somewhat on the structural See also:plan of that of See also:Samuel See also:Hopkins, and, in Emmons's own belief, contained in and evolved from Hopkinsianism. While by no means abandoning the tenets of the old Calvinistic faith, he came to be looked upon as the See also:chief representative of what was then known as the " new school " of theologians. His system declared that holiness and See also:sin are See also:free voluntary exercises; that men See also:act freely under the divine agency; that the slightest transgression deserves eternal See also:punishment; that it is through See also:God's See also:mere See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace that the penitent believer is pardoned and justified; that, in spite of See also:total depravity, sinners ought to repent; and that regeneration is active, not passive, with the believer. Emmonsism was spread and perpetuated by more than a See also:hundred clergymen, whom he personally trained. Politically, he was an ardent patriot during the See also:War of See also:Independence, and a strong Federalist afterwards, several of his See also:political discourses attracting wide See also:attention. He was a founder and the first See also:president of the Massachusetts Missionary Society, and was influential in the See also:establishment of See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary. More than two hundred of his sermons and addresses were published during his lifetime. His See also:Works were published in 6 vols. (See also:Boston, 1842; new edition, 1861).
See also the Memoir, by Dr E. A. See also:Park (Andover, 1861).
End of Article: EMMONS, NATHANAEL (1745–1840)
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