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'''Joseph Barber Lightfoot''' (13 Apr 1828 – 21 Dec 1889), also known as '''J. B. Lightfoot''', was a [[professor]] of divinity at [[Cambridge University]] from 1861, and [[Bishop]] of [[Durham]] from 1879.<ref name="Stott1996">{{cite book |author=John Stott |title=The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus |publisher=InterVarsity Press |place=Downers Grove, IL |year=1996 (First Ed.) |pages=179|isbn=978-0-8308-1247-9 |url=http://books.google.com/books/about/1_Timothy_Titus.html?id=3yXYFfc0CZQC}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
*Series of ''Essays on "Supernatural Religion"'' published in the ''Contemporary Review'' between 1874 and 1877<ref>{{cite web |title=Essays on the Work Entitled "Supernatural Religion" |author=J. B. Lightfoot |publisher=The Anglican Library, Reprinted from The Contemporary Review |url=http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/lightfoot/supernatural/index.htm |accessdate=10 Aug 2018}}</ref> - Lightfoot exposed many errors of an anonymous book entitled "''Supernatural Religion''". On the one hand, the book was praised by its reviewers and quickly went into several editions, but on the other hand it upset many people by its vigorous attack on the credibility of the early church fathers.<ref name="Stott1996"/> Lightfoot demolished the book's arguments so thoroughly, that, according to one bookseller, before the series of essay articles were finished, 'the book was already a glut in the second-hand market'.<ref>{{cite book |title=Lightfoot of Durham: Memories and Appreciations |author=George R. Eden, F. C. MacDonald (eds.) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1932 |pages=10, 155 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_IxxBAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Christian Apologists]]
== Bibliography ==
*Series of ''Essays on "Supernatural Religion"'' published in the ''Contemporary Review'' between 1874 and 1877<ref>{{cite web |title=Essays on the Work Entitled "Supernatural Religion" |author=J. B. Lightfoot |publisher=The Anglican Library, Reprinted from The Contemporary Review |url=http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/lightfoot/supernatural/index.htm |accessdate=10 Aug 2018}}</ref> - Lightfoot exposed many errors of an anonymous book entitled "''Supernatural Religion''". On the one hand, the book was praised by its reviewers and quickly went into several editions, but on the other hand it upset many people by its vigorous attack on the credibility of the early church fathers.<ref name="Stott1996"/> Lightfoot demolished the book's arguments so thoroughly, that, according to one bookseller, before the series of essay articles were finished, 'the book was already a glut in the second-hand market'.<ref>{{cite book |title=Lightfoot of Durham: Memories and Appreciations |author=George R. Eden, F. C. MacDonald (eds.) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1932 |pages=10, 155 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_IxxBAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
==References==
<small>{{reflist|1}}</small>
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lightfoot, J. B.}}
[[Category:Christian Apologists]]