Rev Professor James Bannerman, Doctor of Divinity, was a Scottish theologian.
Background
Bannerman was the son of Reverend James Patrick Bannerman, minister of Cargill, Perthshire. He was born at the manse of Cargill on 9 April 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, 27 March 1868.
Career
In 1850 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton College, New Jersey. His chief publications were: 1. ‘Letter to the Marquis of Tweeddale on the Church Question,’ 1840.
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‘The Prevalent Forms of Unbelief,’ 1849. 3. ‘Apologetical Theology,’ 1851. 4. ‘Inspiration: the Infallible Truth and Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures,’ 1865.
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‘The Church: a Treatise on the Nature, Powers, Ordinances, Discipline, and Government of the Christian Church,’ 2 volumes 6. A volume of sermons (also posthumous) published in 1869.
