John Williamson Nevin

John Williamson Nevin (born February 20, 1803, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 6, 1886, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American Protestant theologian and educator who contributed to the “Mercersburg theology”—a movement that attempted to counter the popular Protestant revivalism of antebellum America. After graduating from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1826, Nevin taught there and at the Western Theological Seminary before teaching at the Mercersburg Seminary (Pennsylvania), a German Reformed institution (1840–53). He also headed Marshall College...