Memoir of Ann H. Judson by Ann Hasseltine Judson

This chapter proposes other needed areas of research in the life and spirituality of Adoniram Judson, which were beyond the scope of this dissertation. Chapter 7 summarizes the research questions and the thesis, and it analyzes the unique features of Judson's spirituality. Expressed many times in letters, journals, tracts, and sermons, Judson's supreme desire was to please him. Chapter 6 highlights Judson's dominant spiritual motivation from his early days to his last days: to please Christ. Moreover, his eager expectancy of Christ's imminent millennial glory stimulated his evangelical activism. His heavenly-mindedness permeated his vision for living and dying. Chapter 5 demonstrates that Judson's interpretation of life's events was through the lens of eternity.

Judson's response to his love for God was a self-denying asceticism. His submission to God's will affected his view of suffering, duty, and self-denial. Chapter 4 contends for an all-consuming vision of God's sovereignty in Judson's piety. His evangelical activism and conversionism grew out of his bibliocentrism. Chapter 3 argues that the foundation of Judson's missionary spirituality was the Bible. Chapter 2 surveys Judson's life and the historical, theological, and spiritual contexts that formed him. It argues that the center of Judson's spirituality was a heavenly-minded, self-denying submission to the sovereign will of God, which was motivated by an affectionate desire to please Christ, by obeying his final command revealed in the sacred Scriptures. Adoniram Judson, Missionary to Burmah, Including a History of the American Baptist Mission in the Burman Empire de Judson, Ann Hasseltine Knowles, James D. This dissertation is an inductive synthesis and study of the spirituality of Adoniram Judson.

'A Supreme Desire to Please Him': The Spirituality of Adoniram Judson

Memoir of Ann H. Judson by Ann Hasseltine Judson