page_title: Joseph Bellamy
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Bellamy
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the center of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Connecticut) by John Warner Barber (1798-1885) Barber's work is "the earliest known view of Bethlehem," according to a Web page titled "Visual Evidence: Drawing 1: View of the center of Bethlehem" at the National Park Service Web site pages for the Joseph Bellamy House in Bethlehem
context_page_description: Joseph Bellamy 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: View of the center of Bethlehem by John Warner Barber (published 1836, 46 years after Bellamy's death) "Bellamy's house is the one to the right of the two trees in the center of the drawing and to the left of the Congregational Church."[3]
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