Jarlath Killeen

A Victorian Dissenter

History & Biography

“In its careful analysis of the writings of Robert Govett, this book uncovers the variety of early dispensationalism, reconstructs the crises in the formation of its eschatology, and uncovers the mechanisms by which evangelical reputations could be made and just as quickly forgotten. David Seip’s new work offers important new insights into the debates out of which emerged the most widespread eschatological system in global Christianity.” —Crawford Gribben, Queen’s University Belfast “This fascinating study performs a celebratory act of theological archaeology, bringing an important but almost completely forgotten figure in Victorian religious history back into consideration. Given Robert Govett’s enormous output, and the importance to the cultural historian of recovering and understanding ideas and arguments which lost the historical battle, it is of no small significance that Seip has provided us with a sense of the theological and intellectual struggles of this figure which helps fill in a gap in our understanding of a very fascinating period.”