Edward Aspinwall,

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

(died 1732), was an English polemical divine.

Life

Aspinwall received his education at Cambridge University, and was appointed chaplain to the Earl of Radnor. Afterwards he became sub-dean of the

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, and in 1729 was instituted prebendary of Westminster. Aspinwall died on 3 August 1732.

Works

Aspinwall was the author of a ''Preservative against Popery'', 1715, and an ''Apology, being a series of Arguments in Proof of the Christian Religion'', 1731. The ''Apology'', mainly directed against the deist Anthony Collins, was prefaced by an address 'To all Impartial Freethinkers,' in which Aspinwall articulated his ideal of impartiality:

References

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