Eighteenth-Century, British-Baptist, Woman Theologian Volume 2: Discourses, Poetry, Hymns, Memoir

JoAnn Ford Watson, compiler and editor

Further collected writings

Volume II contains Anne Dutton’s once well-known and widely circulated A Discourse upon Walking with God (1735). Once read and referred to by George Whitefield, it contains spiritual insights for practical daily living. Dutton’s hymns and poetry are also included in this volume. Dutton’s poetry, A Narration of the Wonders of Grace (1734), was a prominent publication in her day. It contained 1,504 lines of poetry in six parts based on themes of sal-vation. Her biographer, J.C. Whitebrook, referred to it as her “chief literary production.” Sixty-one of Dutton’s hymns composed on several subjects are also included in that volume. Her biographer, J.A. Jones, noted that these were written for “plain and homely folk” in the “midland countries.” Dutton’s con-tribution to evangelical spirituality, poetry, and hymnody in the Baptist tradition is significant.

JoAnn Ford Watson is the H.R. Gill Family Professor of Theology and Chair of the Department of Theology at Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio. She received her B.A. degree from DePauw University, her M.Div. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and her Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA with rural parish, pastoral experience and inner-city chaplaincy experience. She has worked in Calcutta with Mother Theresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity. She received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award at Ashland Theological Seminary for 2001, 2002, and 2004. She has previously published with Mercer University Press Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton. Volume I, Letters (2003). She is interested in women’s history, contemporary theology, and spirituality.

Walter B. Shurden is the general editor of the Baptists Series.

Also in the Baptists Series

Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: Eighteenth-Century British-Baptist Woman Theologian. Volume 1, Letters

Send the Light: Lottie Moon’s Letters and Other Writings

Southern Baptist Sisters: In Search of Status, 1845–2000

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