Samuel Willard: Preacher of Orthodoxy in an Era of Change, by Seymour Van Dyken

SAMUEL WILLARD: PREACHER OF ORTHODOXY IN AN ERA OF CHANGE, by Seymour Van Dyken; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1972; 224 pp., $5.95. (Reviewed by Prof. H. Hanko) Samuel Willard was a Puritan preacher in New England who lived during the years 1640-1707. He lived during a time, therefore, when Puritanism was being challenged in New England and when not only new doctrines were being brought into the area, but also when the whole concept of church and state as maintained by the Puritans was...