Daniel Parish Kidder (1815–1892) was an American Methodist Episcopal theologian and writer who spent several years in Brazil.
Kidder was born in 1815 at Darien, Genesee County, Co., N.Y. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1836, entered the ministry, and in 1837 went as a missionary to Brazil, where he was the first to preach a Protestant sermon in some time. (Protestants have a long story with Brazil. Protestants went to Brazil before they went to North America. See: Jean de Léry, Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, and França Antártica).
After his return to the United States in 1840, he served as a corresponding secretary of the Methodist Sunday School Union and editor of Sunday-school publications and tracts (1844–56), as professor of homiletics in Garrett Biblical Institute for 15 years and in Drew Theological Seminary for 10 years, and as secretary of the board of education of his church (1880–87). The rest of his life was spent in Evanston, Illinois.
Kidder's Treatise on Homiletics (1864, 1884) and The Christian Pastorate (1871) are the books for which he is best known. Others include:
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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