Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844) – 3

Fundamentally, Asahel Nettleton was a Calvinist.  Yet, Calvinism has taken many different forms and falls into many different schools of thought.  Nettleton, as an ordained Congregationalist from Connecticut and a graduate of Yale, was heir, primarily, to the New England Theology.  Even this label requires further definition.  From the fountainhead of Jonathan Edwards (for whom [...]

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Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844) – 2

For those who think of the major evangelists in terms of campaigns lasting several weeks, with daily services, it is important to see how Nettleton labored.  Although he did spend, sometimes, months in a single location, Nettleton limited his preaching to a few times a week.  Tyler says, for instance, that, during his most active [...]

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Asahel Nettleton (1783-1844) – 1

The chief source of information about Asahel Nettleton is the biography by his friend Bennet Tyler written shortly after Nettleton’s death.  Following the style of popular biographies of that day (and, fortunately for the historian), Tyler loads his work with extensive extracts from primary sources: Nettleton’s own writings, contemporary articles from periodicals, and correspondence from [...]

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