Richard Baxter
English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1615
- Died
- 1691
- Works
- 902
Top works
- The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise on the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory
- A call to the unconverted
- The lives of Sir. Matthew Hale, knt. Lord Chief Justice of England; Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; and Queen Mary
- An epistle consolatory to the honourable and pious Countess of Balcarres
- The practical works of the late reverend and pious Mr. Richard Baxter
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922-03-14
- Active to
- 1996-01-15
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Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also began a long and prolific career as a theological writer.
Following the Act of Uniformity 1662, Baxter refused an appointment as Bishop of Hereford and was expelled from the Church of England. He became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformist movement, spending time in prison. His views remain controversial within the Calvinist tradition of Predestination because he taught that Christians are placed under a type of faith-law.
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