Robert Hall, the elder

Robert Hall, the elder (1728–1791) was an English Particular Baptist minister, known as an opponent of hyper-Calvinism.

Life

Hall was a pastor at Arnesby in Leicestershire. His ministry extended into parts of Warwickshire.[1]

Works

Help to Zion's Travellers (1781) analysed doctrinal difficulties facing Baptists of the older hyper-Calvinist school in accepting his views.[2] Influential in that school were the teachings of Tobias Crisp, Richard Davis, and Joseph Hussey, through John Brine and John Gill.[3]

Family

Hall married Jane Catchaside, and they had a family of 14 children. The youngest of those, Robert Hall, the younger, was also a Baptist minister, and became better known than his father.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Alan Betteridge (1 August 2010). Deep Roots, Living Branches: A History of Baptists in the English Western Midlands. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-84876-277-0.
  2. ↑ James Leo Garrett (2009). Baptist Theology: A Four-century Study. Mercer University Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-88146-129-9.
  3. ↑ William H. Brackney (13 April 2009). Historical Dictionary of the Baptists. Scarecrow Press. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-8108-6282-1.
  4. ↑ Chadwick, Rosemary. "Hall, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11982. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)