ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the thought of Philip Doddridge, particularly in the areas of theology and philosophy, within the context of mid-eighteenth-century Dissent. An examination of Doddridge's philosophical views, chiefly on the basis of the first three parts of the Course of Lectures, has confirmed the strong influence upon his thinking of John Locke, but has shown that Doddridge cannot be regarded as simply Lockean in his philosophy. For Doddridge's theological views, the reigning paradigm in the historiography has been to see the Northampton pastor as under the influence principally of Richard Baxter: this is sometimes expressed as Baxterianism, but it is put in terms of a moderate Calvinism, or of a middle position between Calvinism and Arminianism. Baxterian neonomian ideas are absent from Doddridge's soteriology, which endorsed a view of doctrine of justification by faith which appears closer to John Owen than to Baxter.
