Leonard Woods

For his son, president of Bowdoin College, see Leonard Woods (college president).

Leonard Woods (June 19, 1774 - August 24, 1854)[1] was an American theologian. He was widely known for upholding orthodox Calvinism over Unitarianism.

In 1796, Woods graduated from Harvard, and was soon ordained pastor in 1798 of the Congregational Church at West Newbury, MA. He was the first professor of Andover Theological Seminary and between 1808 and 1846, occupied the seminary's chair of Christian theology. He helped establish several societies including the American Tract Society, the American Education Society, the Temperance Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Works

His six primary works are:

References

  1. Bowden, Henry Warner, ed. (1977). "Woods, Leonard". Dictionary of American religious biography (1st ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 530–531. ISBN 0-8371-8906-3.

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