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- Eric Alexander - Bernhard W Anderson - Jacob Arminius - Saint Augustine - Gladys Aylward -
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(1932– Jan 13, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2023: Wee Flea: Letter from Australia 115 – A Prince in Israel has Fallen – An appreciation of the ministry of Rev Eric Alexander – and his final words in public.
When the Queen died, I felt that it marked the end of an era for the United Kingdom. This weekend I heard of the death of a church leader whose passing for me marks the end of an era for the Church in Scotland. Rev. Eric Alexander was one of the greatest preachers and men of God I have ever known. He was a ‘prince in Israel’ and we mourn his passing (2 Samuel 2:38). Jan 16, 2023: A Place for Truth: For to Me, to Live Is Christ and to Die Is Gain...Remembering Rev. Eric Alexander
We learned this past weekend that Eric Alexander has gone to be with Christ. It was early Sunday morning when I received a text from a friend with this news. My first response was to get on my knees and thank the Lord for Eric. What a dear man. It is his blessing to be received to glory and our blessing to have known him. The Perseverance of the Saints English Christian Sermon by Rev Eric Alexander
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Rev. Alexander was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he was educated at the University of Glasgow, obtaining degrees in Theology, Philosophy, and History. He served for fifteen years as minister of a rural Church of Scotland parish in Ayrshire, and for twenty years as Senior Minister of St. Georges Parish Church in the center of Glasgow. He retired from St. Georges at the end of 1998. Since then, Rev. Alexander has had a wide ministry both in Europe and in the United States, teaching at a number of seminaries including Regent College, The Masters Seminary, Beeson Divinity School, and Westminster Theological Seminary. In addition, he has spoken at the Philadelphia Conference on Reformation Theology over the past twenty years. From 1959 to 1997, Eric ministered successively in three Church of Scotland congregations, St David’s Knightswood, Glasgow, Loudoun East, Newmilns, and St George’s-Tron, Glasgow. Along with his older brother Tom, Eric had been raised under the ministry of William Fitch in Springburnhill, Glasgow, and from there both were called into the gospel ministry. Tom’s early death aged 29 had a profound impact on Eric. Eric and his wife, Greta, had been married for forty years and had two children. He resided in provincial Glasgow. |
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(September 25, 1916 – December 26, 2007)
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1990 Hayward Lectures
Dr. Bernhard Anderson speaks on "Expostulation with God"
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Bernhard W. Anderson (1917 - 2007) was Professor of Old Testament Theology Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and author of many popular books including the best selling 'Understanding the Old Testament.'
Born in Dover, Missouri, Dr. Anderson was educated in California where he received degrees from the College of the Pacific and Pacific School of Religion. In 1939, he was ordained to the ministry of The Methodist Church. He served Methodist churches in California, as well as Congregational churches in Connecticut and New York.In 1945 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Yale University where he specialized in Old Testament studies.... He holds honorary degrees from the Pacific School of Religion, the University of the Pacific, and Colgate University. As a professor, he served Colgate University in New York, the University of North Carolina, the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Drew University in New Jersey (where he served as Dean of the Theological School for nine years), and finally as a Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. |
BERNHARD ANDERSON OBITUARY
Services will be held in Capitola on Sunday for Dr. Bernhard W. Anderson, who passed away peacefully on December 26, 2007 at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz at the age of 91.
A noted educator, author, and interpreter of the Bible, he is perhaps best known for his widely-used textbook, Understanding the Old Testament. He also wrote a popular church study guide, The Unfolding Drama of the Bible, and a study of the Psalms, Out of the Depths.
Born in Missouri but raised in California, Dr. Anderson graduated from the College of the Pacific now the University of the Pacific. He received his divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in 1939 and was ordained as a minister of the United Methodist Church. Before going into teaching, he served churches in Sunnyvale and Millbrae, California.
Dr. Anderson received his Doctorate of Theology from Yale University in 1942 and went on to a distinguished career as a professor and Old Testament scholar. He was appointed Dean of the Theological School of Drew University in 1954, and in 1968 became Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.
After his retirement in 1983, Dr. Anderson continued to teach and lecture widely. In 1989 he moved to the Santa Cruz area, where he was a devout parishioner of St. John's Episcopal Church in Capitola. He leaves his wife, Monique Anderson and stepson Dick Martin of Santa Cruz, his former wife Joyce Griswold of Haverford, PA, his children Carol, Joan, Ronald, and Ruth, his six grandchildren, and a host of loving extended family members, friends, and colleagues.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at St. John's Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave. in Capitola, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Remembrances in Dr. Anderson's name may be made to St. John's Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola, Ca. 95010
Services will be held in Capitola on Sunday for Dr. Bernhard W. Anderson, who passed away peacefully on December 26, 2007 at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz at the age of 91.
A noted educator, author, and interpreter of the Bible, he is perhaps best known for his widely-used textbook, Understanding the Old Testament. He also wrote a popular church study guide, The Unfolding Drama of the Bible, and a study of the Psalms, Out of the Depths.
Born in Missouri but raised in California, Dr. Anderson graduated from the College of the Pacific now the University of the Pacific. He received his divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in 1939 and was ordained as a minister of the United Methodist Church. Before going into teaching, he served churches in Sunnyvale and Millbrae, California.
Dr. Anderson received his Doctorate of Theology from Yale University in 1942 and went on to a distinguished career as a professor and Old Testament scholar. He was appointed Dean of the Theological School of Drew University in 1954, and in 1968 became Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.
After his retirement in 1983, Dr. Anderson continued to teach and lecture widely. In 1989 he moved to the Santa Cruz area, where he was a devout parishioner of St. John's Episcopal Church in Capitola. He leaves his wife, Monique Anderson and stepson Dick Martin of Santa Cruz, his former wife Joyce Griswold of Haverford, PA, his children Carol, Joan, Ronald, and Ruth, his six grandchildren, and a host of loving extended family members, friends, and colleagues.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at St. John's Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave. in Capitola, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Remembrances in Dr. Anderson's name may be made to St. John's Episcopal Church, 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola, Ca. 95010
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(10 October 1560 – 19 October 1609)
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Jacob Harmensen or Jacob Hermansz, (born October 10, 1560, Oudewater, Netherlands—died October 19, 1609, Leiden), theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who opposed the strict Calvinist teaching on predestination and who developed in reaction a theological system known later as Arminianism. He served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden and wrote many books and treatises on theology. At Amsterdam, Arminius taught through "a number of sermons on the Epistle of the Romans". In discussing Romans 7 in 1591, he taught that man, through grace and rebirth, did not have to live in bondage to sin, and that Romans 7:14 was speaking of a man living under the law and convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit, yet not presently regenerated. This was met with some resistance, and some detractors labeled him Pelagian for teaching that an unregenerate man could feel such conviction and desire for salvation, even with the influence of the Law and the Holy Spirit.
According to John Wesley, himself an Arminian, “No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. These two points, therefore, are to be set out of the question: In these both parties agree.”
Where they disagree is in the third point. Said Wesley, “The former believes absolute, the latter only conditional, predestination.” This necessarily affects the answer the theologian gives to the final two questions.
According to John Wesley, himself an Arminian, “No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. These two points, therefore, are to be set out of the question: In these both parties agree.”
Where they disagree is in the third point. Said Wesley, “The former believes absolute, the latter only conditional, predestination.” This necessarily affects the answer the theologian gives to the final two questions.
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Jan 7, 2023: LMT Online: St. Augustine to celebrate 95th year of education
St. Augustine was allegedly founded by the Oblates and the Sisters of Divine Providence in 1927. It was named in honor of Aurelius Augustinus (also known as Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine): one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.
St. Augustine was allegedly founded by the Oblates and the Sisters of Divine Providence in 1927. It was named in honor of Aurelius Augustinus (also known as Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine): one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.
Feb 3, 2023: The Critic: The end of Christendom
St Augustine, his pupil, responded likewise to a Gothic invasion of Rome. In his City of God, he wrote that the Goths, many of whom had converted to Christianity, spared those who fled to the churches: “The reliquaries of the martyrs and the churches of the apostles bear witness to this; for in the sack of the city they were open sanctuary for all who fled to them, whether Christian or Pagan. To their very threshold the bloodthirsty enemy raged; there his murderous fury owned a limit.”
The sanctuary found there involved not only the sacral geography of the churches built upon relics, but in the spiritual community of Christendom. Even as pagan witnesses lamented the fall of the Roman Empire, Augustine could see the embryonic birth of something greater — a moral and fraternal empire built on shared belief and shared love.
St Augustine, his pupil, responded likewise to a Gothic invasion of Rome. In his City of God, he wrote that the Goths, many of whom had converted to Christianity, spared those who fled to the churches: “The reliquaries of the martyrs and the churches of the apostles bear witness to this; for in the sack of the city they were open sanctuary for all who fled to them, whether Christian or Pagan. To their very threshold the bloodthirsty enemy raged; there his murderous fury owned a limit.”
The sanctuary found there involved not only the sacral geography of the churches built upon relics, but in the spiritual community of Christendom. Even as pagan witnesses lamented the fall of the Roman Empire, Augustine could see the embryonic birth of something greater — a moral and fraternal empire built on shared belief and shared love.
Nov 7, 2020: The Catholic Thing: Augustine’s True Story
One of the handful of books every liberal education must have at its center is Saint Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine was a man of wide learning, of excellent and elaborate Latin style, whose life was itself one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. The Confessions is one of the first great Christian epics in prose. The professor who opens to its first books is bound to feel a little embarrassed, therefore, to see the scorn Augustine heaps upon his own education precisely because it was all just a bunch of stories.
One of the handful of books every liberal education must have at its center is Saint Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine was a man of wide learning, of excellent and elaborate Latin style, whose life was itself one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. The Confessions is one of the first great Christian epics in prose. The professor who opens to its first books is bound to feel a little embarrassed, therefore, to see the scorn Augustine heaps upon his own education precisely because it was all just a bunch of stories.
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Feb 1, 2023: Ligonier: Who Was Gladys Aylward?
Gladys Aylward was a determined woman. Once she felt the call to the mission field, she refused to allow any excuses to hold her back. Although she appeared to lack the resources for mission work, God affirmed her calling and gave her many opportunities to overcome practical obstacles.
Gladys Aylward was a determined woman. Once she felt the call to the mission field, she refused to allow any excuses to hold her back. Although she appeared to lack the resources for mission work, God affirmed her calling and gave her many opportunities to overcome practical obstacles.
Sept 8, 2022: China Christian Daily: In Memory of the 120th Birthday of British Missionary Gladys Aylward, Evangelist Shares Her Mission in Turkey
A seminar with the theme "Cross-Cultural Mission Study" was held to mark the 120th birthday of a female British-born missionary named Gladys Aylward, with a senior cross-cultural evangelist talking about her preaching experience in Turkey.
A seminar with the theme "Cross-Cultural Mission Study" was held to mark the 120th birthday of a female British-born missionary named Gladys Aylward, with a senior cross-cultural evangelist talking about her preaching experience in Turkey.
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and filmed entirely in North Wales and England