John Kennedy

John Kennedy (1813–6 February 1900) was a Scottish Congregational minister and author.

Life Born at Aberfeldy, Perthshire, where his father was a minister, and educated at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow universities. Kennedy was pastor of a Congregational church in Aberdeen from 1836 to 1846. He was then called to the Stepney Congregational Meeting House in London, a charge he held until his retirement in 1882. During his time, a large Gothic church was erected in place of the old meeting house.

Family Kennedy married, in 1846, a sister of Professor John Stuart Blackie. They had five sons and two daughters, including Sir Alexander Kennedy, and a daughter who married Professor Olaus Henrici.

Works

The Divine Life (1858) The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, An Historical Fact; with an Examination of Naturalistic Hypotheses (1871) A Brief Defence of Supernatural Christianity (1875) The Gospels: Their Age and Authorship (1880) A Popular Handbook of Christian Evidences (1880) The Pentateuch: Its Age and Authorship (1884) Old Testament Criticism and the Rights of Non-Experts (1897)

Kennedy was also the editor of The Christian Witness (1866–73) and The Evangelical Magazine (1887–90).