Samuel Johnson of Stratford in New England

Hardback, x + 302 pages 6 & 1/4 x 9 & 1/4 x 1 inches First Printing (2011) In this highly readable biography of the American clergyman, Samuel Johnson, Professor Don Gerlach recounts the life and times of a remarkable colonial intellectual who was also a man of profound faith. The book’s narrative traces Johnson’s life from his boyhood as a strict Calvinist in Connecticut, through his studies at the nascent Yale University, and shows how his encounters with the writings of church fathers, and the Anglican divines of earlier eras, led him to a deep and abiding belief in the correctness of the Anglican understanding of the Christian faith. Examples of Johnson’s leadership in ecclesiastical affairs abound. He became a tutor and helped shape the intellectual life of many young men at Yale; then after taking holy orders in England, he became a leading light in the Anglican Church in Connecticut, training priests, planting parishes, and providing clergy for many more. A goal he pur