James Bannerman (theologian)

Rev Prof James Bannerman, D.D. , was a Scottish theologian. He is best known for his classic work on Presbyterian ecclesiology, The Church of Christ, which continues to be widely read.

Bannerman was the son of Reverend James Patrick Bannerman, minister of Cargill, Perthshire. He was born at the manse of Cargill onApril 1807, and after a distinguished career at the University of Edinburgh, especially in the classes of Sir John Leslie and Professor Wilson, became minister of Ormiston, in Midlothian, in 1833, left the Established Church for the Free Church in 1843, and in 1849 was appointed professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in the New College, Edinburgh, which office he held till his death,March 1868.

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