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Daniel Waterland

English theologian

Died when: 57 years 313 days (694 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Daniel Waterland

Daniel Cosgrove Waterland (14 March 1683 – 23 December 1740) was an English theologian.He became Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1714, Chancellor of the Diocese of York in 1722, and Archdeacon of Middlesex in 1730.

Waterland opposed the latitudinarians of his time.He was an acute controversialist on behalf of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, on which he wrote several treatises.

He was also the author of a History of the Athanasian Creed (1724).


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