Sermons & Devotionals by William Dool Killen
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 1
Preface This little volume is respectfully submitted to the candid consideration of all who take an interest in theological inquiries, under the impression that it will throw some additional light on a subject which has long created much discussion. It has been called forth by the appearance of a tr... Read More
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 2
Chapter 2 THE TESTIMONY OF POLYCARP TO THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES EXAMINED. The Bishop of Durham affirms, in a passage already quoted, that "no Christian writings of the second century, and very few writings of antiquity, whether Christian or pagan, are so well authenticated" as the Epistles attributed t... Read More
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 3
Chapter 3 THE DATE OF THE MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP. To many it may appear that there can be no connection between the date of the martyrdom of Polycarp and the claims of the Ignatian Epistles. All conversant with the history of this controversy must, however, be aware that the question of chronology ha... Read More
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 4
Chapter 4 THE TESTIMONY OF IRENAEUS AND THE GENESIS OF PRELACY. 1. The Testimony of Irenaeus. The only two vouchers of the second century produced in support of the claims of the Epistles attributed to Ignatius, are the letter of Polycarp to the Philippians and a sentence from the treatise of Irenae... Read More
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 5
Chapter 5 THE FORGERY OF THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES. If, as there is every reason to believe, the Ignatian Epistles are forgeries from beginning to end, various questions arise as to the time of their appearance, and the circumstances which prompted their fabrication. Their origin, like that of many othe... Read More
William Dool Killen
THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES ENTIRELY SPURIOUS - Part 6
Appendix I LETTER OF THE LATE DR. CURETON. Immediately after the appearance of the second edition of The Ancient Church, a copy of it was sent to the late Rev. W. Cureton, D.D., Canon of Westminster — the well-known author of various publications relating to the Ignatian Epistles. It was considered ... Read More
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William Dool Killen (1806 – 1902)
Born at Church Street, Ballymena, County Antrim, on 16 April 1806, he was third of four sons and nine children of John Killen (1768–1828), a grocer and seedsman in Ballymena, by his wife Martha, daughter of Jesse Dool, a farmer in Duneane. His paternal grandfather, a farmer at Carnmoney, married Blanche Brice, a descendant of Edward Brice; a brother, James Miller Killen (1815–1879) was a minister in Comber, County Down. Thomas Young Killen Moderator, in 1882, of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland[1]was his father's great-nephew.In July 1841 Killen was appointed, by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, its professor of church history, ecclesiastical government, and pastoral theology, in succession to James Seaton Reid. He concentrated on history. When Assembly's College, Belfast was set up in 1853, he became one of the professors there. In 1869 he was appointed president of the college, in succession to Henry Cooke, and undertook to fundraise for professorial endowments and new buildings. In 1889 Killen resigned his chair but continued as president. He died on 10 January 1902, and was buried in Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast, where a monument marked his resting place. He received the degrees of D.D. (1845) and of LL.D. (1901) from the University of Glasgow. His portrait, painted by Richard Hooke, hung in the Gamble Library of the Assembly's College.