James Petigru Boyce

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James Petrigu Boyce.

James Petigru Boyce (1827–1888) served as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and seminary professor.

Education and early life

Boyce was educated at Brown University under Francis Wayland, whose evangelical sermons contributed to Boyce’s conversion, and at Princeton Theological Seminary under Charles Hodge who led Boyce to appreciate Calvinistic theology.

Later career

Boyce became a pastor, then a university professor, and finally the founder and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he taught theology from 1859 until his death in 1888. Throughout his ministry Boyce insisted on the importance of theological education for all ministers. In a preface, he described his Abstract of Systematic Theology, published the year before his death, as follows: "This volume is published the rather as a practical text book, for the study of the system of doctrine taught in the Word of God, than as a contribution to theological science."

Bibliography

  • Nettles, Tom J. James Petigru Boyce: a Southern Baptist Statesman. Phillipsburg, N.J: P & R Pub, 2009.
  • Nettles, Tom J., and James P. Boyce. Stray Recollections, Short Articles and Public Orations of James P. Boyce. Cape Coral, Fla: Founders Press, 2009.
  • Wills, Gregory A. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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