Author Description

John Henry Blunt (25 August 1823 Chelsea - April 11, 1884 in London) was an English divine. He was ordained in 1852 and took his M.A. degree in 1855, publishing in the same year a work on "The Atonement. " He became a voluminous writer in the fields of theology and ecclesiastical history, and had published among other works an annotated edition of the Prayer Book (1867), a History of the English Reformation (1868), a Book of Church Law (1872), as well as a Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology (1870). The continuation of these labors was seen in a Dictionary of Sects and Heresies (1874), an Annotated Bible (3 vols., 1878-1879), and a Cyclopaedia of Religion (1884).