The Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Scriptures was a group founded in 1783 in London, with a definite but rather constrained plan for Biblical interpretation.[ 1]
Founders
The founding group included John Disney , the initial Secretary,[ 2] John Jebb .[ 3] John Calder , Michael Dodson , Andrew Kippis , Theophilus Lindsey and Richard Price in London. Those in the provinces giving at least financial support included Joseph Priestley , Bishop Edmund Law , Joshua Toulmin , and William Turner .[ 1] Robert Tyrwhitt joined in 1784.[ 4]
The Society produced two volumes of Commentaries and Essays (1787), as its major achievement, before subsiding as inactive.[ 5] [ 6] Henry Moore .[ 7]
Notes
^ a b "Memoirs of the late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M. A., [microform] including a brief analysis of his work" . 1820.^ Ditchfield, G. M. "Disney, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/7685 . (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) ^ Gascoigne, John. "Jebb, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/14680 . (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) ^ "Tyrwhitt, Robert" Dictionary of National Biography ^ "Chapter 17: Liberal Dissenters Unite to Form the Unitarian Church" .^ Mercer, M. J. "Dodson, Michael". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/7759 . (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.) ^ Mercer, M. J. "Moore, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/19117 . (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
