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Robert Lewis Dabney

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March 05, 1820 in The United States

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January 03, 1898

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Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today.

Dabney studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1842), and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1846.
He was then a missionary in Louisa County, Virginia, from 1846 to 1847 and pastor at Tinkling Spring, Virginia from 1847 to 1853, being also head master of a classical school for a portion of this time. From 1853 to 1859 he was professor of ecclesiastical history and polity and from 1859 to 1869 adjunct professor of systematic theology in Un...more Robert Lewis Dabney (March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson. His biography of Jackson remains in print today.

Dabney studied at Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia (M.A., 1842), and graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1846.
He was then a missionary in Louisa County, Virginia, from 1846 to 1847 and pastor at Tinkling Spring, Virginia from 1847 to 1853, being also head master of a classical school for a portion of this time. From 1853 to 1859 he was professor of ecclesiastical history and polity and from 1859 to 1869 adjunct professor of systematic theology in Union Theological Seminary, where he later became full professor of systematics. In 1883, he was appointed professor of mental and moral philosophy in the University of Texas.
By 1894 failing health compelled him to retire from active life, although he still lectured occasionally. He was co-pastor, with his brother-in-law B. M. Smith, of the Hampden-Sydney College Church 1858 to 1874, also serving Hampden-Sydney College in a professorial capacity on occasions of vacancies in its faculty. Dabney, whose wife was a first cousin to Stonewall Jackson's wife, participated in the Civil War: during the summer of 1861 he was chaplain of the 18th Virginia regiment in the Confederate army, and in the following year was chief of staff to Jackson during the Valley Campaign and the Seven Days Battles.
After the Civil War Dabney spoke widely on Jackson and the Confederacy. He continued to hold racial views typical in the South before the Civil War, and his continued support of slavery in speeches and a book published after the war and his strong loyalty to the Confederacy until the 1890s made him a visible figure in the post-war South (Hettle, 2003).
While at the University of Texas he practically founded and maintained the Austin School of Theology (which later became Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary), and in 1870 was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Major works

Memoir of Rev. Dr. Francis S. Sampson (1855), whose commentary on Hebrews he edited (1857);
Life of General Thomas J. Jackson (1866)
A Defense of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (1867), an apologia for the Confederacy.
Lectures on Sacred Rhetoric (1870)
Syllabus and Notes of the Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology (1871; 2nd ed. 1878), later republished as Systematic Theology.
Systematic Theology (1878)
Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century Examined (1875; 2nd ed. 1887)
Practical Philosophy (1897)
Penal Character of the Atonement of Christ Discussed in the Light of Recent Popular Heresies (1898, posthumous), on the satisfaction view of the atonement.
Discussions (1890-1897), Four volumes of his shorter essays, edited by C. R. Vaughan.(less)

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Average rating: 4.17 · 151 ratings · 37 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Life and Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1998 — 21 editions	My rating:
	On Secular Education 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Defense of Virginia and the South 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1867 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Systematic Theology 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Evangelical Eloquence: A Course of Lectures on Preaching 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Discussions of Robert Lewis Dabney (Dabney Discussions) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982	My rating:
	Christ Our Penal Substitute 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Five Points of Calvinism by Robert Lewis Dabney, Jonathan Dickinson 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Practical Philosophy: Being the Philosophy of the Feelings, of the Will, and of the Con-Science, With the Ascertainment of Practicular Rights and Duties 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sacred Rhetoric or a Course of Lectures on Preaching 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary when we positively are able to apprehend that the negation thereof includes an inevitable contradiction. It is not that that we can see how the opposite comes to be true, but it is that the opposite can not possibly be true.”
― Robert Lewis Dabney

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