biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1721–1803)
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| biography:
| Protestant clergyman and theologian, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. He graduated from Yale (1741) and studied theology privately with Jonathan Edwards before becoming pastor of the Congregational church in Great Barrington, MA (1745). His modifications of Edward's orthodoxy, known as Hopkinsianism, were influential. Parishioners, tiring of his stern sermons, dismissed him in 1769, and he accepted a pulpit in Newport, RI, and remained there for the rest of his life. An early opponent of slavery, he worked to establish religious missions in Africa. |
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