John L. Dagg
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John L. Dagg
John Leadley Dagg (1794–1884), born in Loudoun County, Virginia was an American Baptist theologian.
Biography[]
Dagg had a limited education, was near-blind, and physically disabled.[1]He became a pastor in Philadelphia and elsewhere and then an educator both in Alabama and as president at Mercer University in Georgia. His Manual of Theology (1857) was the first comprehensive systematic theology written by a Baptist in America. He died in June 1884.
References[]
- ^ Samuel S. Hill, Charles H. Lippy, Charles Reagan Wilson, Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Mercer University Press, USA, 2005, p. 244
External links[]
- Biographical Sketch at Founders.org
- Biographical Sketch by Georgia Encyclopedia
- John L. Dagg by Gilson Santos
- The Elements of Moral Science by John L. Dagg
- Manual of Theology by John L. Dagg
- A Treatise on Church Order by John L. Dagg
- Proclamation of Peace by John L. Dagg (1862)
Categories:
- 1794 births
- 1884 deaths
- Baptist ministers from the United States
- American Calvinist and Reformed Christians
- American Christian theologians
- Presidents of Mercer University
- Baptist theologians
- 19th-century American clergy