Nationality American Name James Boyce | Role Author | |
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Occupation Preacher, author, seminary president and professor Died December 28, 1888, Pau, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France Books Abstract of Systematic Theology, James Petigru Boyce: Selected Writings Education Princeton Theological Seminary, Brown University Organizations founded Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | ||
James Petigru Boyce (1827–1888) served as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, seminary professor, and founder and first president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Early life
James Petigru Boyce was born in 1827. He 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.
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."
Death
Boyce died in 1888.