author
F. (Francis) Hodgson
1805–1877
A 19th-century Methodist writer, he tackled some of the biggest theological arguments of his day in clear, forceful prose. His surviving books show a preacher deeply engaged with debates over predestination, church order, and doctrine.
1 Audiobook
The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted
by F. (Francis) Hodgson
About the author
Francis Hodgson (1805–1877), often listed as F. Hodgson, was a 19th-century religious writer whose published work is closely tied to the Methodist Episcopal Church and to Protestant doctrinal debate in the United States.
Catalog and archive records confirm several of his books, including The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted, An Examination of the System of New Divinity; or, New School Theology, The Great Iron Wheel Reviewed, and Ecclesiastical Polity of Methodism Defended. Taken together, these works suggest an author who wrote as both minister and controversialist, addressing questions of predestination, church structure, and competing theological systems.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth and death years was not readily confirmed from the sources found in this search, so it is safest to remember him chiefly through his books: earnest, argumentative works aimed at ordinary readers wrestling with serious questions of faith and doctrine.