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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Edward Fowler |
 | | Edward Fowler (1632 - August 26, 1714) was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1691 until his death. |
 | | He was born at Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later moving to Trinity College, Cambridge. |
 | | The Design of Christianity, published in the following year, in which he laid stress on the moral design of revelation, was criticized by Richard Baxter in his How far Holiness is the Design of Christianity (1671) and by John Bunyan in his Defence of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith (1672). |
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