Joseph Bellamy, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American theologian and pastor
Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1719
Date of Death: 06-Mar-1790
Profession: theologian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Joseph Bellamy
- Joseph Bellamy (20 February 1719 - 6 March 1790) was an American Congregationalist pastor and a leading preacher, author, educator and theologian in New England in the second half of the 18th century.
- He was an disciple of Jonathan Edwards, and along with Samuel Hopkins, Timothy Dwight IV, Nathaniel William Taylor, and Jonathan Edward Jr., one of the "Architects of the New Divinity", a branch of the New Light movement that came out of the Great Awakening.
- A proponent of education for both clergy and laity, for a half century out of his rural Bethlehem, Connecticut church he trained fifty ministers, and founded what was possibly the first American Sabbath or Sunday school.
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