D - Past-Witnesses-File
- Hans Werner Debrunner - Anne Dutton -
hans werner debrunner
Hans Werner Debrunner (1923 –1998) was a Swiss German historian and theologian
whose work mainly covered mission history, West Africa and the African diaspora. He also carried out academic research on history relating to missiology in northern, eastern and southern Africa. Upon his death in 1998, his private library and archive were donated to the Carl Schlettwein Foundation. The "independent, self-contained collection" comprises more than 3100 books and single journal issues on his area of specialty, published mostly in the first half to mid-twentieth century. Furthermore, Debrunner’s academic archives are a compilation of historiography and ethnography, particularly bio-bibliographies of Swiss missionaries and native African pastors and missionaries who worked with the Basel Mission in Africa. Debrunner also documented history, socio-political and intercultural relations between Africa and Europe.
whose work mainly covered mission history, West Africa and the African diaspora. He also carried out academic research on history relating to missiology in northern, eastern and southern Africa. Upon his death in 1998, his private library and archive were donated to the Carl Schlettwein Foundation. The "independent, self-contained collection" comprises more than 3100 books and single journal issues on his area of specialty, published mostly in the first half to mid-twentieth century. Furthermore, Debrunner’s academic archives are a compilation of historiography and ethnography, particularly bio-bibliographies of Swiss missionaries and native African pastors and missionaries who worked with the Basel Mission in Africa. Debrunner also documented history, socio-political and intercultural relations between Africa and Europe.
anne dutton
Anne Dutton (1692–1765) was an English poet and Calvinist Baptist writer on religion. She published around 50 titles and corresponded with George Whitefield and John Wesley. Her biographer, J.C. Whitebrook, referred to it as her “chief literary production.” Sixty-one of Dutton’s hymns composed on several subjects are also included in that volume. Her biographer, J.A. Jones, noted that these were written for “plain and homely folk” in the “midland countries.” Dutton’s con-tribution to evangelical spirituality, poetry, and hymnody in the Baptist tradition is significant.
Anne Dutton
"The sin of pride is the child of unbelief. Pride springs from a disbelief of God to be what He is, in His immense and essential glory, in His infinite, underived, all-comprehending, incomprehensible self-sufficiency; and from a vain conceit of the creature’s being that which indeed it is not—that the creature is something independent of God. Whereas, without His all-supporting and all-supplying hand, it would soon sink into its first nothing, and be, as in and of itself it is, a mere vacuity, less than nothing, and vanity…Nothing like the sin of pride unfits us for divine service. It renders us incapable, so far as it prevails, of any acceptable service either to God or man." -Anne Dutton
Anne Dutton
"By giving me frequent communion, and sweet fellowship with himself, in his three glorious persons; in the infinite, free, full, unchangeable and eternal love of the Three-One God, displayed in and through the man Christ Jesus; as that which gloriously encompassed me in one eternal round. Thus highly was I favoured for many years."
—Anne Dutton, A Discourse upon Walking with God (1735)
—Anne Dutton, A Discourse upon Walking with God (1735)